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Title Speaking pictures : the visual/verbal nexus of dramatic performance / edited by Virginia Mason Vaughan, Fernando Cioni, and Jacquelyn Bessell
Published Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrations
Contents Performance spaces. Staging Arthur, the future king: signs of Edward, the black prince / SunHee Kim Gertz -- The place of the human: Shakespeare's stage and the bear garden / Andreas Höfele -- Stage practices. "Most truly limned and living in your face": looking at pictures in Shakespeare / Keir Elam -- "Why do you bend your eye on vacancy?": visual meaning and its absence in Hamlet / Ann Thompson -- Mist and fog on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage / Alan C. Dessen -- Enter three Turks and a Moor: signifying the "other" in early modern English drama / Virginia Mason Vaughan -- Revisioning performance. Visualizing and performing Jewishness: Jews and "shylocks" on stage from the restoration to late romanticism / Fernando Cioni -- Dramatic illusion and sympathetic curiosity in romantic drama / Lilla Maria Crisafulli -- Actors' Bodies. The early modern physical theater / Jacquelyn Bessell -- The animal within: the study and application of animal characteristics as part of an actor's preparation for a role / Anna Northam
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-230) and index
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Subject Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century
Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century
Theater -- Great Britain -- History
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
English drama -- History and criticism
Visual perception in literature.
Visualization in literature.
Speech in literature.
English drama
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
Speech in literature
Theater
Visual perception in literature
Visualization in literature
England
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Vaughan, Virginia Mason.
Cioni, Fernando.
Bessell, Jacquelyn, 1967-
LC no. 2009030493
ISBN 9780838642290
0838642292