Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss /
"This book looks at a British actor from the 1700s, David Garrick. By playing Shakespeare, Garrick raised the playwright to a position of new national importance, but in the process of doing so, he also activated Shakespeare as the social and cultural center around which he, and many other acto...
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פורמט: | אלקטרוני ספר אלקטרוני |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2018.
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תוכן הענינים:
- Introduction: the actor
- Against loss
- The chronology of Garrick
- Theatrical time
- Celebrating performance
- Black Garrick versus Richard III
- Aphra Behn and the memory of Othello
- Becoming Richard, becoming Othello
- Garrick, ascendant
- Hamlet, David Garrick, and Laurence Sterne
- Garrick and the immortality of the stage
- Theatrical Tristram
- Garrick's autopsy, "Yorick's" skull
- Retelling The winter's tale
- The return of Leontes
- "Perdita" Robinson and the burden of the past
- Reanimating Lady Macbeth
- Siddons and the memory of Garrick
- The merchant of Venice and memorial debts
- "Shakespeare's" Shylock
- Clive's Portia
- Trial by theater and tradition
- Macklin's exit, Garrick's stage
- Shakespeare, retired
- Garrick's farewell
- Siddons, offstage
- Mourning performance.