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Author
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Date published
2008
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Publisher
Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.
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Subject
English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism Theory, etc
English drama 17th century History and criticism Theory, etc
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Accession number
83431489
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Class
81/CHU
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ISBN
9780773450615, 0773450610
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Language
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Physical description
iii, 245 p. ;
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Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Formatted contents note: Part I: Role-playing -- "Forms to his conceit": the dynamics of role-playing -- Seeming or being: expressions of feelings in Hamlet -- "The cackle of skulls": role-playing and comic metatheatricality in the Revenger's tragedy -- Part II: playwright-characters -- Playwright-characters and the power of illusion -- Doctor Faustus: the legacy of the devil -- Jouissance of play-writing in Othello -- Part III: inset-plays -- "The play's the thing": definition and variations of inset-plays -- The "shaping fantasies" in the Taming of the shrew, the Spanish tragedy and A midsummer night's dream -- "By indirections find directions out": theater, metatheater, Hamlet -- Part IV: audience perception and self-reflexivity -- Audience perception: engagement and detachment -- The mirror of theater: self-reflexivity and the mirror metaphor -- Conclusion: the return of the theater's gaze.