Author's Pen and Actor's Voice: Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre

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Cambridge University Press, 2000 M07 27 - 316 pages
Robert Weimann redefines the relationship between writing and performance, or "playing," in Shakespeare's theater. 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 theater, performance theory, and film and video interpretation, and offers a new approach to understanding Shakespeare. Weimann examines a range of plays as well as other contemporary works. A major part of the study explores the duality between playing and writing.

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Author's Pen and Actor's Voice: Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre
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About the author (2000)

Weimann is professor of literature at the Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic in Berlin.

West is Senior Lecturer in Counselling Studies at the University of Manchester, where he is Director of Counseling Courses including the Taught Doctorate in Counselling Studies. He is a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and has written extensively on therapy and spirituality, qualitative research, supervision, humanistic therapy and culture.

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TitleAuthor's Pen and Actor's Voice: Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre
Volume 39 of Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
AuthorRobert Weimann
EditorsHelen Higbee, William West
PublisherCambridge University Press, 2000
ISBN0521781302, 9780521781305
Length316 pages
  
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