Hand on the Shakespearean Stage

Gesture, Touch and the Spectacle of Dismemberment

AvFarah Karim Cooper

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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This ground-breaking new book uncovers the way Shakespeare draws upon the available literature and visual representations of the hand to inform his drama. Providing an analysis of gesture, touch, skill and dismemberment in a range of Shakespeare's works, it shows how the hand was perceived in Shakespeare’s time as an indicator of human agency, emotion, social and personal identity. It demonstrates how the hand and its activities are described and embedded in Shakespeare's texts and about its role on the Shakespearean stage: as part of the actor’s body, in the language as metaphor, and as a morbid stage-prop. Understanding the cultural signifiers that lie behind the early modern understanding of the hand and gesture, opens up new and sometimes disturbing ways of reading and seeing Shakespeare's plays.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-04-21
Mått:126 x 198 x 18 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781474234269

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Farah Karim-Cooper is Head of Higher Education & Research, Globe Education (Shakespeare's Globe) and Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London, UK.

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Farah Karim-Cooper’s The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage: Gesture, Touch, and the Spectacle of Dismemberment combines its author’s expert knowledge of early modern performance with new research on the cultural history of gesture to deliver a groundbreaking account of the emotional, psychological, and social work carried out by the hand on stage.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction Chapter One: The Idea of the Hand in Shakespeare's WorldChapter Two: Manners and Beauty: The Social HandChapter Three: 'Lively Action': Gesture in Early Modern PerformanceChapter Four: Gesture and Shakespeare's Narrative ArtChapter Five: 'Let Lips do what Hands do': Shakespeare's Sense of TouchChapter Six: Amputation: The Spectacle of Dismemberment in Shakespeare's TheatresEpilogue -- FingersNotesIndex