Allegorising Thought on the Shakespearean Stage
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Allegory
Author_Claire Gueron
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Emotions
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Heuristics
Humourism
Mind/Body
MindBody
Performance
Shakespeare
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- ISBN 9781399510660
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2025
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book argues that Shakespeare turned staging problems into opportunities for complex characterization by mobilizing the semiotic potential of playhouse architecture, stage space, gestures, stage properties, performance style and audience participation. These features of production result in allegorical projections of the characters' thoughts, in a way that reflects early modern fascination with the hidden workings of the human mind.
Claire Guéron is Senior Lecturer at the University of Burgundy (Université de Bourgogne) in Dijon, France. Her research areas are early modern stage semiotics, the ethics of spectatorship and Shakespearean detective novels. Her recent publications include ‘Figure and Figura in Henry V’, in François Laroque (ed), William Shakespeare King Henry V, Paris: Ellipses, 2020, pp.65-80, ‘Le double jeu de Nick Revill, détective Shakespearien’, Textes et Contextes, vol. 14, no. 1 , [online], June 16th, 2019. ‘”Never Shake thy Gory Locks at me”: Objecting to Gesture in Macbeth’, Interfaces: Texte, Image, Langage, vol.40, 2018. And ‘Authorizing Laughter in The Duchess of Malfi’, in Pascale Drouet and William C. Carroll (eds), Paris: Belin Education, 2018, pp. 204-19.
