The experience of powerful emotion has always been central to dramatic presentation and audience response. In this study, T. G. Bishop examines ways in which wonder has been used by playwrights as an integral part of theater in classical and medieval drama and explores wonder in Shakespeare's work through extended readings of The Comedy of Errors, Pericles and The Winter's Tale. By focusing on how characters feel, and how the story of these feelings is told and evaluated, this study offers a new approach to understanding plays.
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"...Shakespeare and the theatre of wonder is an enlightening work, coupling impressive insight into the plays it analyzes with an infectious appreciation for the rich chemistry of those dynamic still points in which nothing but everything is happening." Thomas Moisan, Shakespeare Quarterly
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The experience of powerful emotion has always been central to dramatic presentation and audience response. In this study, T. G. Bishop examines ways in which wonder has been used by playwrights as an integral part of theatre in classical and medieval drama; and he goes on to explore wonder in Shakespeare's work through extended readings of The Comedy of Errors, Pericles and The Winter's Tale. By focusing on how characters feel, and how the story of these feelings is told and evaluated, this study offers a new approach to understanding plays.
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I begin with Plato and Aristotle because in them, first of all, philosophy and poetry of drama find themselves interwined. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Tempest, Corpus Christi, Midsummer Night's Dream, Ben Jonson, Mary Magdalene, Twelfth Night New!
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I begin with Plato and Aristotle because in them, first of all, philosophy and poetry of drama find themselves interwined. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Tempest, Corpus Christi, Midsummer Night's Dream, Ben Jonson, Mary Magdalene, Twelfth Night New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Comedy of Errors (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on 14 pages
- Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Collection) by Jan Dean on 8 pages
- Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on 8 pages
- Shakespeare and Ovid (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Jonathan Bate on 6 pages
- RC Series Bundle: Playing and Reality (Routledge Classics) by D. W. Winnicott on 5 pages
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- Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays by Sarah Beckwith in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Shakespeare Criticism in the Twentieth Century (Oxford Shakespeare Topics) by Michael Taylor on page 56, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Speaking with the Dead: Explorations in Literature and History by Jürgen Pieters on page 83, and Back Matter
- Fairy in the Faerie Queene: Renaissance Elf-Fashioning and Elizabethan Myth-Making by Matthew Woodcock on page 70, and Back Matter
- Culture and Authority in the Baroque (UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series) by Massimo Ciavolella on page 24, and page 25
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