Face-to-Face in Shakespearean Drama (eBook, ePUB)

Ethics, Performance, Philosophy
Redaktion: Smith, Matthew James; Lupton, Julia Reinhard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the drama of proximity and co-presence in Shakespeare's playsKey FeaturesBrings together the rare pairing of philosophical ethics and performance studies in Shakespeare's playsEngages with the thought of philosophers including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hannah Arendt, Paul Ricoeur, Stanley Cavell, and Emmanuel LevinasThis book celebrates the theatrical excitement and philosophical meanings of human interaction in Shakespeare. On stage and in life, the face is always window and mirror, representation and presence. It examines the emotional and ethical surplus that appears between faces in the activity and performance of human encounter on stage. By transitioning from face as noun to verb - to face, outface, interface, efface, deface, sur-face - chapters reveal how Shakespeare's plays discover conflict, betrayal and deception as well as love, trust and forgiveness between faces and the bodies that bear them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474435710
• Artikelnr.: 72430145

Autorenporträt

Matthew J. Smith is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Azusa Pacific University. Julia Reinhard Lupton is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, as well as Associate Dean for Research at the School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine. Her selected publications include Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming) and Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life (University of Chicago Press, 2011). She is also the co-editor, with David Goldstein, of Shakespeare and Hospitality: Ethics, Politics, and Exchange (Routledge, 2016) and numerous other volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Matthew J. Smith and Julia Reinhard Lupton
I. Foundational Face Work
1. Outface and Interface, Bruce R. Smith
2. "Everybody's Somebody's Fool": Folie à Deux in Shakespeare's Love Duets,
Lawrence Manley
3. The Course of Recognition in Cymbeline, Matthew J. Smith
II. Composing Intimacy and Conflict
4. Face to Face, Hand to Hand: Relations of Exchange in Hamlet, Emily
Shortslef
5. Bed Tricks and Fantasies of Facelessness, Devin Byker
III. Facing Judgment
6. The Face of Judgment in Measure for Measure, Kevin Curran
7. Then Face to Face: Timing Trust in Macbeth, Jennifer Waldron
IV. Moving Pictures
8. The Man of Sorrows: Edgar's Disguise and Dürer's self-portraits, Hanna
Scolnicov
9. The Face as Rhetorical Self in Ben Jonson's literature, Akihiko Shimizu
10. Hamlet's Face, W. B. Worthen
Afterword: "Theater and Speculation" William N. West