{"product_id":"authors-pen-and-actors-voice-playing-and-writing-in-shakespeares-theatre-paperback-9780521787352","title":"Author's Pen and Actor's Voice; Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre (Paperback) 9780521787352","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAuthor's Pen and Actor's Voice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePlaying and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRedefines the relationship between writing and performance in Shakespeare's theatre.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobert Weimann (Author), Helen Higbee (Edited by), William West (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521787352, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 27 July 2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e316 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15 x 1.7 cm, 0.465 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… impressively detailed… The breadth of Robert Weiman's research and the depth of his thought are evident on every page.' New Theatre Quarterly\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this seminal work, Robert Weimann redefines the relationship between writing and performance, or 'playing', in Shakespeare's theatre. Through close reading and careful analysis Weimann offers a reconsideration and redefinition of Elizabethan performance and production practices. The study reviews the most recent methodologies of textual scholarship, the new history of the Elizabethan theatre, performance theory, and film and video interpretation, and offers a new approach to understanding Shakespeare. Weimann examines a range of plays including Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Henry V, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth, among others, as well as other contemporary works. A major part of the study explores the duality between playing and writing: the imaginary world-in-the-play and the visible, audible playing-in-the-world of the playhouse, and Weimann focuses especially on the gap between these two, between the so-called 'pen' and 'voice'.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Conjunctures and concepts\u003cbr\u003e 1. Performance and authority in Hamlet (1603)\u003cbr\u003e 2. A new agenda for authority\u003cbr\u003e 3. Pen and voice: versions of doubleness\u003cbr\u003e 4. Playing with a difference\u003cbr\u003e 5. Histories in Elizabethan performance\u003cbr\u003e 6. Hamlet and the purposes of playing\u003cbr\u003e 7. Space (in)dividable: Locus and Platea revisited\u003cbr\u003e 8. Shakespeare's endings: commodious thresholds\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: thresholds forever after\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005229650200,"sku":"9780521787352","price":36.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521787352i_93be34ab-6beb-42f6-9671-453bca37234a.jpg?v=1691367926","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/authors-pen-and-actors-voice-playing-and-writing-in-shakespeares-theatre-paperback-9780521787352","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}