Book contents
- The Players’ Advice to Hamlet
- The Players’ Advice to Hamlet
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Hamlet’s Advice to the Players
- Chapter 2 Rhetorical Performance in Antiquity
- Chapter 3 Acting, Preaching and Oratory in the Sixteenth Century
- Chapter 4 Baroque Acting
- Chapter 5 Actors and Intellectuals in the Enlightenment Era
- Chapter 6 Emotion
- Chapter 7 Declamation
- Chapter 8 Gesture
- Chapter 9 Training
- References
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2020
- The Players’ Advice to Hamlet
- The Players’ Advice to Hamlet
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Hamlet’s Advice to the Players
- Chapter 2 Rhetorical Performance in Antiquity
- Chapter 3 Acting, Preaching and Oratory in the Sixteenth Century
- Chapter 4 Baroque Acting
- Chapter 5 Actors and Intellectuals in the Enlightenment Era
- Chapter 6 Emotion
- Chapter 7 Declamation
- Chapter 8 Gesture
- Chapter 9 Training
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter sets out the rationale for the European focus, and examines the surprisingly small amount of scholarship that addresses the field covered by this book. I explain the rationale for the structure of the book, and examine some of the historiographical issues that are at stake.
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- The Players' Advice to HamletThe Rhetorical Acting Method from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, pp. 1 - 9Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020