Shakespeare for snowflakes : on slapstick and sympathy /
Drawing on plays by Shakespeare, Sarah Kane, Sophocles, Samuel Beckett and others, this book examines the ways in which these dramatists manipulated the actor's body to demand laughter and/or sympathy. Ian Burrows shows how these strategies can be thought about beyond the stage-space, in the cl...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Winchester, UK :
Zero Books,
[2020].
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| Summary: | Drawing on plays by Shakespeare, Sarah Kane, Sophocles, Samuel Beckett and others, this book examines the ways in which these dramatists manipulated the actor's body to demand laughter and/or sympathy. Ian Burrows shows how these strategies can be thought about beyond the stage-space, in the classroom, in the media and in relation to the social construction of 'snowflake culture' as a 21st century phenomenon. |
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| Physical Description: | 143 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1789041619 9781789041613 |