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Hidden Theater Messages
Hidden Theater Messages explores the intriguing world of political subtext hidden within classic plays, revealing how playwrights used the stage as a platform for dissent and social change. The book delves into how allegory and symbolism were employed to evade censorship, allowing for commentary on contemporary political struggles and the manipulation of audience emotions. Imagine attending a play and realizing the dialogue is a covert critique of the ruling powers! The book argues that theater has consistently served as a covert channel for political discourse, especially when direct expression was suppressed. By examining plays from ancient Greece to the modern era, the book uncovers the hidden meanings embedded within seemingly innocuous narratives. The analysis draws upon original play scripts, historical documents, and censorship records, providing a ""decoding"" approach to theatrical analysis. Unfolding in three parts, the book first introduces the concept of ""hidden messages"" and the techniques used to encode them. It then explores specific case studies of plays, analyzing their political subtexts and societal reflections. Finally, it examines the impact of these decoded messages on audiences and their relevance to contemporary political discourse. This approach offers a fresh perspective on familiar works, revealing their potential as powerful tools for political expression and social commentary.
Shakespeare’s Theater of Nature
Shakespeare’s Theater of Nature argues that Shakespeare combined art and nature in new ways while experimenting with relations between words, images, and objects as sources of knowledge and pleasure. Shakespeare’s re-centering of nature as a source of theatrical representation in a range of plays follows debates in natural philosophy and theology about how to understand divinity in and through the order of nature (ordo creationis). Early chapters analyze early modern reframing of nature by printed books of botany, cosmology, and history—as well Tudor interludes that center nature as a subject—while later chapters offer readings of eight plays by Shakespeare that draw on classical, medieval, and early modern debates in natural philosophy and theology to create new modes of dramatic mimesis.
Shakespeare's Theater of Likeness
Author: Richard Allen Shoaf
language: en
Publisher: New Academia Publishing/ The Spring
Release Date: 2006
Shoaf shows that Shakespeare's theater is also Shakespeare's theory of the psychology of likeness and unlikeness in the human striving for the most elusive and allusive of all attainments--an individual identity.