Irreplaceable acting
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/453995 , vital:75303 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC142419
- Description: What do I mean by irreplaceable acting? In one way all acting is irreplaceable. Very obviously, without acting there is no play, just a text - perhaps not even that, if one considers improvised pieces or physical theatre scenarios. In a more important sense, all acting is replaceable, almost by definition. The same part is played by different actors on different stages in different ages. Acting is replaceable, because it is acting; it is not the real thing. But some performances, some moments on stage, seem to me best described as irreplaceable.
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- Date Issued: 2013
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/453995 , vital:75303 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC142419
- Description: What do I mean by irreplaceable acting? In one way all acting is irreplaceable. Very obviously, without acting there is no play, just a text - perhaps not even that, if one considers improvised pieces or physical theatre scenarios. In a more important sense, all acting is replaceable, almost by definition. The same part is played by different actors on different stages in different ages. Acting is replaceable, because it is acting; it is not the real thing. But some performances, some moments on stage, seem to me best described as irreplaceable.
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- Date Issued: 2013
Will and Wille Shakespeare on Love: The Sonnets and Plays in Relation to Plato's Symposium, Alchemy, Christianity and Renaissance Neo-Platonism, Ronald Gray: essays and reviews
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455944 , vital:75469 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC128421
- Description: Best known as the author of Kafka's Castle (1956) and a number of highly regarded works on Goethe and Brecht, Ronald Gray turns his attention to Shakespeare in a rich and succinct little book, developed from his earlier article "Will in the Universe: Shakespeare's Sonnets, Plato's Symposium, Alchemy and Renaissance neo-Platonism", which appeared in Shakespeare Survey 59 (2006). Works produced by senior intellects - Gray retired from Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1982 - can sometimes spin sugar floss at unnecessary length, or else fling themselves recklessly at momentous questions without tact or scholarly measure. (Helen Gardner's unfortunate In Defence of the Imagination, 1982, would be an apposite illustration of the latter tendency.) Shakespeare on Love avoids both dangers, holding to its challenging thesis with admirable economy.
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- Date Issued: 2013
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455944 , vital:75469 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC128421
- Description: Best known as the author of Kafka's Castle (1956) and a number of highly regarded works on Goethe and Brecht, Ronald Gray turns his attention to Shakespeare in a rich and succinct little book, developed from his earlier article "Will in the Universe: Shakespeare's Sonnets, Plato's Symposium, Alchemy and Renaissance neo-Platonism", which appeared in Shakespeare Survey 59 (2006). Works produced by senior intellects - Gray retired from Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1982 - can sometimes spin sugar floss at unnecessary length, or else fling themselves recklessly at momentous questions without tact or scholarly measure. (Helen Gardner's unfortunate In Defence of the Imagination, 1982, would be an apposite illustration of the latter tendency.) Shakespeare on Love avoids both dangers, holding to its challenging thesis with admirable economy.
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- Date Issued: 2013
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