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Author_Kai Wiegandt
Beastly Feeder
belief
Cade Scenes
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class conflict drama
collective identity
Desdemona's Faithfulness
Desdemona’s Faithfulness
early modern theatre
Elizabethan audience studies
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henry
Henry IV
Holy Men
hostile
Hostile Belief
Hostile Outburst
hysterical
Hysterical Belief
iii
Kenneth Gross
KING HENRY
Lord Chief Justice
Margaret's Curse
Margaret’s Curse
Menenius's Fable
Menenius’s Fable
metatheatrical analysis
Nutzen Und Nachteil Der Historie
Ocular Proof
outbursts
performative crowd dynamics in Shakespearean plays
poetics
political rhetoric history
PRINCE EDWARD
richard
Richard III
Rumour Circulation
Rumour Intensity
Shakespeare's Poetics
shakespeares
Sneak's Noise
time
Tudor Myth
Uncounted Heads
Vice Versa
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781409432197
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this study, the author offers new interpretations of Shakespeare's works in the context of two major contemporary notions of collectivity: the crowd and rumour. The plays illustrate that rumour and crowd are mutually dependent; they also betray a fascination with the fact that crowd and rumour make individuality disappear. Shakespeare dramatizes these mechanisms, relating the crowd to class conflict, to rhetoric, to the theatre and to the organization of the state; and linking rumour to fear, to fame and to philosophical doubt. Paying attention to all levels of collectivity, Wiegandt emphasizes the close relationship between the crowd onstage and the Elizabethan audience. He argues that there was a significant - and sometimes precarious - metatheatrical blurring between the crowd on the stage and the crowd around the stage in performances of crowd scenes. The book's focus on crowd and rumour provides fresh insights on the central problems of some of Shakespeare's most contentiously debated plays, and offers an alternative to the dominant tradition of celebrating Shakespeare as the origin of modern individualism.
Kai Wiegandt is assistant professor of English Literature at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
