Shakespearean Character: Language in Performance

by Jelena Marelj

Book Overview

Why do we continue to experience many of Shakespeare's dramatic characters as real people with personal histories, individual personalities, and psychological depth? What is it that makes Falstaff seem to jump off the page, and what gives Hamlet his complexity? Shakespearean Character: Language in Performance examines how the extraordinary lifelikeness of some of Shakespeare's most enigmatic and self-conscious characters is produced through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350061387
• ISBN13: 9781350061385
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.9"