Studies in Elizabethan Audience Response to the Theatre (How Easy is a Bush Suppos'd a Bear? Actor and Character in the Elizabethan Viewer's Mind) - European University Studies - Henk Gras - Books - Peter Lang GmbH - 9783631458037 - February 1, 1993
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Studies in Elizabethan Audience Response to the Theatre (How Easy is a Bush Suppos'd a Bear? Actor and Character in the Elizabethan Viewer's Mind) - European University Studies

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The aim of this volume is to give an analytic description of how Elizabethan Spectators in documentary evidence responded to the theatre performances they watched or knew to be about. It also considers why they responded in that way. Opposing dual consciousness to the reification of the character (its 'ideal presence'), the author concludes that Elizabethan spectators were predominantly interested in the characters' 'ideal presence'. Why they were, is explained by relating their statements to the Renaissance theory of visual perception, (demonic) transformation, and ideas on acting.

304 pages, 1 fig.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 1, 1993
ISBN13 9783631458037
Publishers Peter Lang GmbH
Pages 304
Dimensions 209 × 150 × 18 mm   ·   436 g   (Weight (estimated))
Language English  

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