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Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Transition

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Language
English
Publishers
Cambridge University Press (29 Feb. 2024)
Weight
0.34 KG
Publication Date
29/02/2024
ISBN-10
110881283X
Pages
250 pages
ISBN-13
9781108812832
Dimensions
15.24 x 1.45 x 22.86 cm
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9781108812832
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James Harriman-Smith (Author)
James Harriman-Smith teaches English literature at Newcastle University, UK. He trained at the University of Cambridge, and the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. He publishes on theatre history, aesthetics, translation, performance, and other topics from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century.Read more about this authorRead less about this author
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Great art is about emotion. In the eighteenth century, and especially for the English stage, critics developed a sensitivity to both the passions of a performance and what they called the transitions between those passions.

It was these pivotal transitions, scripted by authors and executed by actors, that could make King Lear beautiful, Hamlet terrifying, Archer hilarious and Zara electrifying. James Harriman-Smith recovers a lost way of appreciating theatre as a set of transitions that produce simultaneously iconic and dynamic spectacles; fascinating moments when anything seems possible.

Offering fresh readings and interpretations of Shakespearean and eighteenth-century tragedy, historical acting theory and early character criticism, this volume demonstrates how a concern with transition binds drama to everything, from lyric poetry and Newtonian science, to fine art and sceptical enquiry into the nature of the self. .

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