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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2020
      February 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108689502
      9781108498876
      9781108712811
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108689502
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.74kg, 378 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.56kg, 382 Pages
      • Subjects:
      British Theatre, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies, European Theatre
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    Hamlet is a characteristic intellectual more inclined to lecture actors about their craft than listen to them, and is a precursor of Enlightenment figures like Diderot and Lessing. This book is a quest for the voice of early professional actors, drawing on English, French and other European sources to distinguish the methods of professionals from the theories of intellectual amateurs. David Wiles challenges the orthodoxy that all serious discussion of acting began with Stanislavski, and outlines the comprehensive but fluid classical system of acting which was for some three hundred years its predecessor. He reveals premodern acting as a branch of rhetoric, which took from antiquity a vocabulary for conversations about the relationship of mind and body, inside and outside, voice and movement. Wiles demonstrates that Roman rhetoric provided the bones of both a resilient theatrical system and a physical art that retains its relevance for the post-Stanislavskian performer.

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