Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

Author:   Bridget Escolme (Reader, LONDON, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781408179673


Pages:   344
Publication Date:   07 November 2013
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Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves


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Author:   Bridget Escolme (Reader, LONDON, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   The Arden Shakespeare
Dimensions:   Width: 12.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.366kg
ISBN:  

9781408179673


ISBN 10:   1408179679
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   07 November 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments / Introduction / 1. 'A Brain that Leads my Use of Anger' Choler and the Politics of Spatial Production / 2. 'Do you mock old age, you rogues?' Excessive Laughter, Cruelty and Compassion / 3. 'Give Me Excess of It' Love, Virtue and Excessive Pleasure in All's Well that Ends Well and Antony and Cleopatra / 4. Stop your Sobbing: Grief, Melancholy and Moderation / Conclusion / Bibliography

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A compelling read ... Escolme provides an imaginative and profitable nexus between theatre studies and the history of emotions, benefitting scholars from both fields -- Brid Philips, University of Western Australia * Cerae: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies *


A compelling read ... Escolme provides an imaginative and profitable nexus between theatre studies and the history of emotions, benefitting scholars from both fields -- Brid Philips, University of Western Australia Cerae: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies


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Bridget Escolme is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Queen Mary College, University of London, and a leading figure in the study of early modern drama in performance. She researches and teaches historical theatre and its contemporary production, particularly early modern drama and the ways in which original and current staging practices produce space and subjectivity. She has published with CUP and Routledge in the past.

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