Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 57Gale Research Company, 1984 |
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... performance , the play wants nothing of it . The pretense that this performance is all a cure for love , then , may serve rather as a figure for the kind of warding off or protecting against contamination that may be under way . The ...
... performance , the play wants nothing of it . The pretense that this performance is all a cure for love , then , may serve rather as a figure for the kind of warding off or protecting against contamination that may be under way . The ...
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... performance ; and our recognition of being in the presence of performance is incompatible with our being illuded . Diderot was right ( probably ) about actors , but wrong ( certainly ) about audiences . Theatre , as is obvious if we ...
... performance ; and our recognition of being in the presence of performance is incompatible with our being illuded . Diderot was right ( probably ) about actors , but wrong ( certainly ) about audiences . Theatre , as is obvious if we ...
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... performance , comes from our treading that line with him : of our being not so much in two minds as two worlds ( of fiction and of performance , of underlying story and its theatrical realisation ) which are with us always in performance ...
... performance , comes from our treading that line with him : of our being not so much in two minds as two worlds ( of fiction and of performance , of underlying story and its theatrical realisation ) which are with us always in performance ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
History and Philosophy | 31 |
Representation and Identity | 40 |
Copyright | |
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