David Wiles

Players' Advice to Hamlet (eBook, PDF)

The Rhetorical Acting Method from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Outlining a classical ''rhetorical'' system, this is the first serious overview of how European actors c.1550-1800 thought about acting.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108599108
• Artikelnr.: 70912561

Autorenporträt

David Wiles is Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Exeter. A British theatre historian, he specialises in classical and early modern theatre and has spent his career in departments of drama, where his teaching has always engaged with practice. His research interests include performance space and time, mask, acting and citizenship. This is his eighth book for Cambridge University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Hamlet's advice to the players
2. Rhetorical performance in antiquity
3. Acting, preaching and oratory in the sixteenth century
4. Baroque acting
5. Actors and intellectuals in the Enlightenment era
6. Emotion
7. Declamation
8. Gesture
9. Training.