Shakespeare as Prompter
Title | Shakespeare as Prompter PDF eBook |
Author | Murray Cox |
Publisher | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
Pages | 482 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781853021596 |
Prompting is the thematic thread that pervades the pages of this book. Its primary connotation is that of the prompter who is urgently called into action, at moments of anxiety, when narrative begins to fail. The central dynamic issue concerns the amending imagination as a prompting resource which, through creativity and the aesthetic imperative, can be invoked in this therapeutic space when the patient - through fear, resistance or distraction - is unable to continue with his story. Psychotherapy can be regarded as a process in which the patient is enabled to do for himself what he cannot do on his own. Shakespeare - as the spokesman for all other poets and dramatists - prompts the therapist in the incessant search for those resonant rhythms and mutative metaphors which augment empathy and make for deeper communication and which also facilitates transference interpretation and resolution. The cadence of the spoken word and the different laminations of silence always call for more finely tuned attentiveness than the therapist, unprompted, can offer. The authors show how Shakespeare can prompt therapeutic engagement with "inaccessible" patients who might otherwise be out of therapeutic reach. At the same time, they demonstrate that the clinical, off-stage world of therapy can also prompt the work of the actor in his on-stage search for representational precision.
Dictionary of Shakespeare
Title | Dictionary of Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Louise McConnell |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781579582159 |
William Shakespeare is acknowledged to be the greatest writer in the English language. This new dictionary includes more than 1,500 entries that cover: Shakespeare's theatre and stagecraft; Elizabethan history and society; all of Shakespeare's plays and poems; his main characters; and terms used in critical reviews.Each of the encyclopedic entries provides a clear explanation of the term, its origins, relevance and use. Dictionary of Shakespeare has been carefully written in a non-technical way to insure that all levels of student and researcher will find the entries clear and uncomplicated.The entries help explain the terms used in Shakespeare's texts and in their execution and so provides the historical context required to give the reader a full background of the term. This feature sets the dictionary apart from others on the same subject that concentrate either on single plays or on the biographies of his characters. No other title explains so great a range of theatrical, historical, and"Shakespearean" terms.
Shakespeare, Memory and Performance
Title | Shakespeare, Memory and Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Holland |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2006-11-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521863805 |
This collection by leading Shakespeare scholars, first published in 2006, brings together memory and performance.
A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare
Title | A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Pages | 756 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Othello. A Tragedy, by Shakespeare, as Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Regulated from the Prompt-book ... by Mr. Hopkins, Prompter ..
Title | Othello. A Tragedy, by Shakespeare, as Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Regulated from the Prompt-book ... by Mr. Hopkins, Prompter .. PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Pages | 83 |
Release | 1777 |
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Shakespeare Without Tears
Title | Shakespeare Without Tears PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Webster |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2012-10-06 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0486311325 |
Covers Elizabethan theater, later changes in theatrical practice, scholarly interpretations, staging problems, analysis of principal characters. "Not an obscure or otherwise dull page in the book." — N.Y. Times Book Review.
Citizen Shakespeare
Title | Citizen Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | James C. Humes |
Publisher | University Press of America |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780761820499 |
Humes (language and leadership, U. of Southern Colorado) gathers together information about Shakespeare's biography and relates it the political and social events of England and the authors' plays. The volume is intended to portray Shakespeare to students as a real man whose concerns were reflected in his writings. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).