North American Players of Shakespeare: A Book of Interviews

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Michael W. Shurgot
University of Delaware Press, 2007 - 425 pàgines
This is a collection of interviews of twenty-one actors from Shakespeare theaters and festivals across North America, from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland to the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario. The interviews celebrate the variety in education, training, and approaches to acting conducted by recognized performance scholars. Thus, this book combines scholarly expertise with actors' insights to produce unique views on contemporary Shakespearean performances in the United States and Canada, and fills an important niche in performance criticism. Michael W. Shurgot is Professor of Humanities at South Puget Sound Community College.

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Continguts

Cultural Geography and the Linguistic Discovery of America
29
II
39
III
56
Partitioning Sovereignty in the Early Republic
61
Panorama Pamphlets and Manifest Destiny
89
IV
109
Chateaubriand and Balzac cartographes
111
William Emory and the Writing of the USMexico Border
127
Manzano Madden El Negro Mártir and the Revisionist Geographies of Abolitionism
209
VI
230
Geographic Consciousness in the American Slave Narrative
236
Maroon Communities and the Geography of Antislavery in Higginson and Stowe
259
VII
279
VIII
281
Nellie Bly and the Geography of Games
296
IX
37

American Graves Pacific Plots
149
Rail Travel Regional Fiction and the Cultural Production of Geographical Essentialism
171
Land Speculation and Millennial Maps in Herman Melvilles ConfidenceMan
191
V
207
X
40
XI
49
XII
53
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Pàgina 348 - Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young, Although she knows my days are past the best, Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue: On both sides thus is simple truth suppress'd.
Pàgina 211 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.
Pàgina 202 - For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
Pàgina 13 - As for players — pardon me, right honourable and beloved, for so wronging this place and your patience with so base a subject — they play with princes and potentates, magistrates and ministers, nay, with God and religion, and all holy things, — nothing that is good, excellent, or holy can escape them, how then can this action ? " But this may suffice, that they are players ; they abuse...
Pàgina 363 - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul. Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars! It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow And smooth as monumental alabaster.
Pàgina 17 - Adventurers in that Plantation. At the said Lord Generall his leave taking of England his Native Countrey, and departure for Virginea, Febr. 21. 1609. By W. Crashaw Bachelar of Divinitie, and Preacher at the Temple.
Pàgina 13 - ... them altogether. But why are the Players enemies to this Plantation and doe abuse it? I will tell you the causes: First, for that they are so multiplied here, that one cannot liue by another, and they see that wee send of all trades to Virginea, but will send no Players, which if wee would doe, they that remaine would gaine the more at home. Secondly, as the diuell hates vs, because wee purpose not to suffer Heathens, and the Pope because we haue vowed to tolerate no Papists...
Pàgina 13 - Players, and they haue played with better things, and such as for which, if they speedily repent not, I dare say, vengeance waites for them. But let them play on ; they make men laugh on earth, but " Hee that sits in heaven laughes them to scorne ;" because like the flie, they so long play with the candle, till first it singe their wings, and at last bnrnes them altogether.
Pàgina 43 - He speaks of the title of the play as a familiar thing: — " the house being filled with people to behold the play, viz. of
Pàgina 13 - Players : they abuse Virginea, but they are but Players : they disgrace it : true, but they are but Players, and they have played with better things, and such as for which, if they speedily repent not, I dare say Vengeance waites for them.

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