Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage
Summary
The feel-good place to buy books
Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage by Bridget Escolme
This book compares the pleasures and anxieties provoked by extremes of emotion on Shakespeare's stage with the ways in which emotional excess is interpreted in the plays today.
A compelling read.. Escolme provides an imaginative and profitable nexus between theatre studies and the history of emotions, benefitting scholars from both fields -- Brid Philips, University of Western Australia * Cerae: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies *
Bridget Escolme is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Queen Mary College, University of London, and a leading figure in the study of early modern drama in performance. She researches and teaches historical theatre and its contemporary production, particularly early modern drama and the ways in which original and current staging practices produce space and subjectivity. She has published with CUP and Routledge in the past.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781408179673 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408179679 |
| Title | Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage |
| Author | Bridget Escolme |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2013-11-07 |
| Number of pages | 344 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |