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STAGE, STAKE, AND SCAFFOLD
HUMANS AND ANIMALS IN SHAKESPEARE'S THEATRE |
| By: |
Andreas Hofele |
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Paperback |
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£35.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198701012 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198701019 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
9 January, 2014 |
| Pages: |
330 |
| Description: |
In Shakespeare's London, the stage of the playhouse, the stake of the bear baiting arena, and the scaffold of public execution constituted an ensemble of related spectacles that shared the same audiences. Andreas Hofele argues that this generated a powerful exchange of images and a spill-over of animal features into Shakespeare's characters. |
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The powerful exchanges between stage, stake, and scaffold - the theatre, the bear garden and the spectacle of public execution - crucially informed Shakespeare's explorations into the construction and workings of 'the human'. The theatre's family resemblance to animal baiting and the spectacle of punishment, its sharing of the same basic type of performance space - a theatre-in-the-round, a scaffold, stake or platform surrounded by spectators - bred an ever-ready potential for a transfer of images and meanings. The staging of one of these kinds of performance is always framed by an awareness of the other two, whose presence is never quite erased and often, indeed, emphatically foregrounded. Situating Shakespearean drama within its material environment, Andreas Hofele explores how this spill-over affects the way Shakespeare models his human characters and his understanding of 'human character' in general. His dramatis personae are infused with a degree of animality that a later, more specificall |
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11 black-and-white halftones |
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UK |
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Oxford University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Winner of 2012 Bainton Literature Prize. |
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