Shakespeare's body language

• Verfasst von: Thomas, Miranda Fay [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Shakespeare's body language
• Titelzusatz: shaming gestures and gender politics on the Renaissance stage
• Verf.angabe: Miranda Fay Thomas
• Verlagsort: London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney
• Verlag: The Arden Shakespeare
• Jahr: 2020
• Umfang: xiii, 252 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 21 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: The Arden Shakespeare
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Drama & performance studies
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 229-245
• Hochschulschrift: Dissertation
• ISBN: 978-1-350-03547-8
• Schlagwörter: (p)Shakespeare, William / (s)Körpersprache
• Dokumenttyp: Hochschulschrift
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe, PDF
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe, E-Book
• RVK-Notation: HI 3381
• Sach-SW: Shakespeare, William
• Sach-SW: Körpersprache
• K10plus-PPN: 1685663575

Abstract

Why do the Capulets bite their thumbs at the Montagues? Why do the Venetians spit upon Shylock's Jewish gaberdine? What is it about Volumnia's act of kneeling that convinces Coriolanus not to assault the city of Rome? Shakespeare's Body Language is a ground-breaking new study of Shakespearean drama, revealing the previously unseen history of social tensions found within the performance of gestures – and how such gestures are used to shame those within the body politic of early modern England. The first full study of shaming gestures in Shakespearean drama, this book establishes how shame is often rooted in the gendered expectations of the Renaissance era. Exploring how the performance of gestures such as figging, the cuckold's horns, and even the in-action of stillness created shaming spectacles on the early modern stage and its wider society, Shakespeare's Body Language argues that gestures are embodied social metaphors which epitomise the personal as political. It reveals the tensions of everyday life as key motivators behind the actions of Shakespeare's characters, and considers how honour and its opposite, shame, are constructed in terms of gender norms.