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The Author’s Accomplice, or the Unsearchable Complicities of Players in the Making of Elizabethan Drama
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Gillies, John |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Description | The notion that Elizabethan acting culminated in late 1590s in an art of "personation" is challenged in Robert Weimann's Author's Pen and Actor's Voice: Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre. In order to succeed at the "popular site", Weimann implies, "learned pens" such as Greene and Marlowe needed the common player more than they cared. According to Weimann, the polarity between acting and playing did not disappear with Shakespeare. Shakespeare is not so much engaging in a dialectical conversation across the gap between acting and playing, as collapsing each into the possibilities of the other. Weimann offers a model of Shakespeare that finds the performative within textual structures, low playing within high personation and character, and all energized with an intelligence that will take some time yet to inform mainstream Shakespeare criticism. Shakespeare does not use the word "complicity", but the condition unearthed in the temptation scene of Othello has the shock of the real rather than the theatrical. Book Name: The Shakespearean International Yearbook |
| Related Links | https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9781315264271-8&type=chapterpdf |
| Ending Page | 141 |
| Page Count | 23 |
| Starting Page | 119 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315264271-8 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2017-05-15 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Shakespearean International Yearbook Substance Abuse Elizabethan Structures Weimann Shakespeare Players Complicity Author's Acting and Playing |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
