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Imagining the actor's body on the early modern stage.(Articles)(Essay)

From: Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England  |  Date: 1/1/2007  |  Author: Lopez, Jeremy

THIS essay is a prolegomenon to a larger study of the relationship between casting, dramaturgy, and theatrical rhetoric on the early modern stage. The last decade or so has seen an increased interest in the importance of the acting company (rather than the playwright) as the fundamental unit of the early modern theater. Theater historians such as Roslyn Knutson, Scott McMillin and Sally-Beth MacLean, Andrew Gurr, and Tiffany Stern have focused our attention on the relationship between ...

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