Actor as Anti-Character by Lesley W Soule
Working from the premise that the stage performer's primary functions derive from celebrative rituals, this book describes the figure of the actor as anti-character in premodern popular theatre.-
Radical Stages
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Jekyll and Hyde Adapted
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Beyond Naturalism
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Synge and Irish Nationalism
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Reinventing Drama
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Greek Tragedy on the American Stage
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Challenging the Hierarchy
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Experimenters, Rebels, and Disparate Voices
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Technology in American Drama, 1920-1950
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The Critics' Canon
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Documentary Theatre in the United States
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Orson Welles on Shakespeare
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German Actors of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
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Rupture, Representation, and the Refashioning of Identity in Drama from the North of Ireland, 1969-1994
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From Stanislavsky to Barrault
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David Hare
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Assessing the Achievement of J. M. Synge
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Vast Encyclopedia
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The Glamour of Grammar
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Shadows of Realism
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William Archer on Ibsen
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The Stage Clown in Shakespeare's Theatre
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Is the Theatre Still Dying?
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Musical Theatre in America
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The Contemporary British History Play
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The Theatre Team
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Yiddish Proletarian Theatre
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Fredric March
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Maria Irene Fornes and Her Critics
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Shakespearean Intertextuality
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Prophet of the New Drama
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The Theatre of Meyerhold and Brecht
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Tony Pastor Presents
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Dramatists and the Bomb
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Rethinking Folk Drama
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Thatcher's Theatre
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Where the Words Are Valid
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Ibsen and Early Modernist Theatre, 1890-1900
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The Dramatic Art of David Storey
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Strategies of Drama
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George Frederick Cooke
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American Labor on Stage
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Israel Horovitz
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Eugene O'Neill in China
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The Gymnasium of the Imagination
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The Simple Stage
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George Sand's Gabriel
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Comedy in the Weimar Republic
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Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare and Shaw
This is a refreshingly original book, one which invites the reader to look again at the relationship between dramatic 'characters' and the actors who play themAs Lesley Soule shows, the debate about the paradox of acting is much older than Diderot. Where does the actor go when the character is in motion? Did the original audiences of As You Like It see Rosaling or the boy who player her? or both? With a dexterity that is, by any reckoning, extraordinary, Lesley Soule contrives to enhance our appreciation of dramatic literature by inviting us to read it with the eyes of a performer. The outcome is not a devaluing but a revisioning of plays. At the heart of this challenging book is a rare sensitivity of the arts and crafts of performance. Peter Thompson, author of Shakespeare's Theatre and Shakespeare's Professional Career.
LESLEY WADE SOULE is Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter, where she teaches directing, acting, theatre history, and the staging of Shakespeare. She has published translations of Slovenian plays, as well as scholarly articles on medieval and Elizabethan drama. She is coeditor of the journal Studies in Theatre and Performance.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780313313042 |
| ISBN 10 | 0313313040 |
| Title | Actor as Anti-Character |
| Author | Lesley W Soule |
| Series | Contributions In Drama And Theatre Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 2000-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 216 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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