Shakespeare's Dramatic Transactions

by Michael Mooney

Shakespeare's Dramatic Transactions uses conventions of performance criticism--staging and theatrical presentation--to analyze seven major Shakespearean tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Richard II, and Richard III. As scholars and readers increasingly question the theoretical models used to describe the concepts of "mimesis" and "representation," this book describes how the actor's stage presentation affects the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822310392
• ISBN13: 9780822310396
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 242 Pages