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Shakespeare and Character

Theory, History, Performance, and Theatrical Persons

  • Paul Yachnin
  • Jessica Slights
Book

Part of the Palgrave Shakespeare Studies book series (PASHST)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Paul Yachnin, Jessica Slights
      Pages 1-18

  3. Theory

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 19-19
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    2. Confusing Shakespeare’s Characters with Real People: Reflections on Reading in Four Questions
      Michael Bristol
      Pages 21-40
    3. The Reality of Fictive Cinematic Characters
      Trevor Ponech
      Pages 41-61
    4. Character as Dynamic Identity: From Fictional Interaction Script to Performance
      William Dodd
      Pages 62-79

  4. History

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 81-81
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    2. Personnage: History, Philology, Performance
      André G. Bourassa
      Pages 83-97
    3. The Properties of Character in King Lear
      James Berg
      Pages 98-116
    4. Embodied Intersubjectivity and the Creation of Early Modern Character
      Leanore Lieblein
      Pages 117-135

  5. Performance

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 137-137
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    2. Metatheater and the Performance of Character in The Winter’s Tale
      Paul Yachnin, Myrna Wyatt Selkirk
      Pages 139-157
    3. Character, Agency and the Familiar Actor
      Andrew James Hartley
      Pages 158-176
    4. The Actor-Character in “Secretly Open” Action: Doubly Encoded Personation on Shakespeare’s Stage
      Robert Weimann
      Pages 177-193

  6. Theatrical Persons

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 195-195
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    2. Is Timon a Character?
      Anthony Dawson
      Pages 197-213
    3. When Is a Bastard Not a Bastard? Character and Conscience in King John
      Camille Slights
      Pages 214-231
    4. Arming Cordelia: Character and Performance
      Sarah Werner
      Pages 232-249
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 250-259
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About this book

Introduction

Shakespeare and Character brings together leading scholars in theory, literary criticism, and performance studies in order to redress a serious gap in Shakespeare studies and to put character back at the centre of our understanding of Shakespeare's achievement as an artist and thinker.

Keywords

fiction King Lear William Shakespeare

Editors and affiliations

  • Paul Yachnin
    • 1
  • Jessica Slights
    • 2
  1. 1.McGill UniversityCanada
  2. 2.Acadia UniversityCanada

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