Shakespeare's Sense of Character : On the Page and from the Stage.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Shakespearean Persons -- 1 How Dark Was It in That Room? Performing a Scene Shakespeare Never Wrote -- 2 Shakespearean Characters and Early Modern Subjectivity: The Case of King Lear -- 3 What Makes Someone a Character in Shakespeare? -- 4 Wopsle's Revenge, or, Reading Hamlet as Character in Great Expectations -- Part 2 Character in Action -- 5 Historicizing Spontaneity: The Illusion of the First Time of "The Illusion of the First Time" -- 6 (Re:)Historicizing Spontaneity: Original Practices, Stanislavski, and Characterization -- 7 Retracing Antonio: In Search of the Merchant of Venice -- 8 Letting Unpleasantness Lie: Counter-Intuition and Character in The Merchant of Venice -- 9 Iago: In Following Him I Follow But Myself -- 10 "I lay with Cassio lately": Iago's Fantasy, the Actor and Audience Response to Othello in 3.3 -- Part 3 Beyond Naturalism: Then and Now -- 11 Just Do It: Theory and Practice in Acting -- 12 Playing Sodomites: Gender and Protean Character in As You Like It -- 13 "Stops" in the Name of Love: Playing Typological Iago -- 14 Henry V's Character Conflict -- Bibliography -- Index.

Making a unique intervention in an incipient but powerful resurgence of academic interest in character-based approaches to Shakespeare, this book brings scholars and theatre practitioners together to rethink why and how character continues to matter. Contributors seek in particular to expand our notions of what Shakespearean character is, and to extend the range of critical vocabularies that character criticism can work in.

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