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The hand on the Shakespearean stage : gesture, touch and the spectacle of dismemberment
- Title
- The hand on the Shakespearean stage : gesture, touch and the spectacle of dismemberment / Farah Karim-Cooper.
- Author
- Karim-Cooper, Farah
- Publication
- London : New York : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2016.
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 309 pages : illustrations; 20 cm
- Summary
- "This ground-breaking new book uncovers the way Shakespeare draws upon the available literature and visual representations of the hand to inform his drama. Providing an analysis of gesture, touch, skill and dismemberment in a range of Shakespeare's works, it shows how the hand was perceived in Shakespeare's time as an indicator of human agency, emotion, social and personal identity. It demonstrates how the hand and its activities are described and embedded in Shakespeare's texts and about its role on the Shakespearean stage: as part of the actor's body, in the language as metaphor, and as a morbid stage-prop. Understanding the cultural signifiers that lie behind the early modern understanding of the hand and gesture, opens up new and sometimes disturbing ways of reading and seeing Shakespeare's plays."--Page 4 of cover.
- Series Statement
- Arden Shakespeare
- Uniform Title
- Arden Shakespeare (Critical studies)
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references(pages [247]-295) and index.
- Contents
- The idea of the hand in Shakespeare's world -- Manners and beauty: The social hand -- 'Lively action': Gesture in early modern performance -- Gesture in Shakespeare's narrative art -- 'Let lips do what hands do' : Shakespeare's sense of touch -- Amputation: The spectacle of dismemberment in Shakespeare's theatres.
- Call Number
- JFD 16-3176
- ISBN
- 9781474234269 (paperback)
- 1474234267 (paperback)
- 9781474234276 (hardback)
- 1474234275 (hardback)
- OCLC
- 919858165
- Author
- Karim-Cooper, Farah, author.
- Title
- The hand on the Shakespearean stage : gesture, touch and the spectacle of dismemberment / Farah Karim-Cooper.
- Publisher
- London : New York : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Arden ShakespeareArden Shakespeare (Critical studies)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references(pages [247]-295) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-3176