Shakespeare and Character: Theory, History, Performance, and Theatrical Persons

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Confusing Shakespeare’s Characters with Real People: Reflections on Reading in Four Questions....Pages 21-40
The Reality of Fictive Cinematic Characters....Pages 41-61
Character as Dynamic Identity: From Fictional Interaction Script to Performance....Pages 62-79
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Personnage: History, Philology, Performance....Pages 83-97
The Properties of Character in King Lear ....Pages 98-116
Embodied Intersubjectivity and the Creation of Early Modern Character....Pages 117-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Metatheater and the Performance of Character in The Winter’s Tale ....Pages 139-157
Character, Agency and the Familiar Actor....Pages 158-176
The Actor-Character in “Secretly Open” Action: Doubly Encoded Personation on Shakespeare’s Stage....Pages 177-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Is Timon a Character?....Pages 197-213
When Is a Bastard Not a Bastard? Character and Conscience in King John ....Pages 214-231
Arming Cordelia: Character and Performance....Pages 232-249
Back Matter....Pages 250-259