The dynamics of role-playing in Jacobean tragedy / Joan Lord Hall.
- Title
- The dynamics of role-playing in Jacobean tragedy / Joan Lord Hall.
- Published by
- Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1991.
- Author
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- Description
- 241 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Jacobean actors fascinated audiences with their convincingly mimetic performances; often they appeared to assume the identities of the fictional characters they impersonated. A similar dynamic emerges in several tragedies of the period, where dramatic characters are frequently changed--for better or worse--by the roles they adopt within the play illusion. This study discusses how certain plays of Jonson and Middleton reveal the destructive consequences of assuming new personae; how three of Shakespeare's tragedies explore the ambivalent results of characters' experimentation with roles; and how Webster and Ford treat role-playing (including ceremonial behavior) creatively, as a vehicle for expressing and consolidating the dramatic self.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bilbiographical references (p. 198-234) and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain