James Harriman-Smith

Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century (eBook, ePUB)

The Art of Transition

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Great art is about emotion. In the eighteenth century, and especially for the English stage, critics developed a sensitivity to both the passions of a performance and what they called the transitions between those passions. It was these pivotal transitions, scripted by authors and executed by actors, that could make King Lear beautiful, Hamlet terrifying, Archer hilarious and Zara electrifying. James Harriman-Smith recovers a lost way of appreciating theatre as a set of transitions that produce simultaneously iconic and dynamic spectacles; fascinating moments when anything seems possible. Offering fresh readings and interpretations of Shakespearean and eighteenth-century tragedy, historical acting theory and early character criticism, this volume demonstrates how a concern with transition binds drama to everything, from lyric poetry and Newtonian science, to fine art and sceptical enquiry into the nature of the self.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108875622
• Artikelnr.: 62746850

Autorenporträt

James Harriman-Smith is a lecturer at Newcastle University. He is a trustee of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and a former trustee of the British Shakespeare Association. His articles have appeared in Theatre Journal, RECTR, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Studies in Romanticism, and Etudes françaises.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Dramatic Transition
2. Zara
3. Odes
4. King Lear
5. Dramatic Character.