The Players' Advice to Hamlet: The Rhetorical Acting Method from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

by David Wiles

Book Overview

Hamlet is a characteristic intellectual more inclined to lecture actors about their craft than listen to them, a precursor of Enlightenment figures like Diderot and Lessing. This book is a quest for the voice of early professional actors, drawing on English, French and other European sources to distinguish the methods of professionals from the theories of intellectual amateurs. David Wiles challenges the orthodoxy that all serious discussion of acting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108498876
• ISBN13: 9781108498876
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.1"