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Shakespeare and Character Theory, History, Performance, and Theatrical Persons Shakespeare and Character Theory, History, Performance, and Theatrical Persons Edited by Paul Yachnin and Jessica Slights Palgrave Shakespeare Studies General Editors: Michael Dobson and Gail Kern Paster Editorial Advisory Board: Michael Neill, University of Auckland; David Schalkwyk, University of Cape Town; Lois D. Potter, University of Delaware; Margreta de Grazia, Queen Mary University of London; Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies takes Shakespeare as its focus but strives to under- stand the significance of his oeuvre in relation to his contemporaries, subse- quent writers and historical and political contexts. By extending the scope of Shakespeare and English Renaissance Studies, the series will open up the field to examinations of previously neglected aspects or sources in the period’s art and thought. Titles in the Palgrave Shakespeare Studies series seek to understand anew both where the literary achievements of the English Renaissance came from and where they have brought us. Titles include: Pascale Aebischer, Edward J. Esche and Nigel Wheale (editors) REMAKING SHAKESPEARE Performance across Media, Genres and Cultures Mark Thornton Burnett FILMING SHAKESPEARE IN THE GLOBAL MARKETPLACE David Hillman SHAKESPEARE’S ENTRAILS Belief, Scepticism and the Interior of the Body Jane Kingsley-Smith SHAKESPEARE’S DRAMA OF EXILE Paul Yachnin and Jessica Slights SHAKESPEARE AND CHARACTER Theory, History, Performance, and Theatrical Persons Forthcoming titles: Timothy Billings GLOSSING SHAKESPEARE Erica Sheen SHAKESPEARE AND THE INSTITUTION OF THE THEATRE Palgrave Shakespeare Studies Series Standing Order ISBN 978-1403-911643 (hardback) 978-1403-911650 (paperback) (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England Also by Paul Yachnin STAGE-WRIGHTS: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical Value THE CULTURE OF PLAYGOING IN SHAKESPEARE’S ENGLAND: A Collaborative Debate (with Anthony Dawson) SHAKESPEARE AND THE CULTURES OF PERFORMANCE (co-edited with Patricia Badir) Shakespeare and Character Theory, History, Performance, and Theatrical Persons Edited by Paul Yachnin and Jessica Slights Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Paul Yachnin & Jessica Slights 2009 Individual chapters © contributors 2009 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2009 978-0-230-57262-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identifi ed as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2009 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-36439-8 ISBN 978-0-230-58415-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230584150 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shakespeare and character : theory, history, performance, and theatrical persons / Paul Yachnin and Jessica Slights. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616—Characters. 2. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616—Knowledge—Psychology. 3. Characters and characteristics in literature. 4. Identity (Psychology) in literature. 5. Personality in literature. I. Yachnin, Paul Edward, 1953– II. Slights, Jessica, 1968– PR2989.S525 2009 822.3’3—dc22 2008030680 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 To the founders of the Shakespeare and Performance Research Team Michael Bristol Leanore Lieblein Patrick Neilson Edward Pechter John Ripley Denis Salter Catherine Shaw This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix Notes on the Contributors and Editors x Introduction 1 Paul Yachnin and Jessica Slights I Theory 1 Confusing Shakespeare’s Characters 21 with Real People: Reflections on Reading in Four Questions Michael Bristol 2 The Reality of Fictive Cinematic Characters 41 Trevor Ponech 3 Character as Dynamic Identity: From Fictional 62 Interaction Script to Performance William Dodd II History 4 Personnage: History, Philology, Performance 83 André G. Bourassa 5 The Properties of Character in King Lear 98 James Berg 6 Embodied Intersubjectivity and the Creation of 117 Early Modern Character Leanore Lieblein III Performance 7 Metatheater and the Performance of 139 Character in The Winter’s Tale Paul Yachnin and Myrna Wyatt Selkirk 8 Character, Agency and the Familiar Actor 158 Andrew James Hartley 9 The Actor-Character in “Secretly Open” Action: 177 Doubly Encoded Personation on Shakespeare’s Stage Robert Weimann vii viii Contents IV Theatrical Persons 10 Is Timon a Character? 197 Anthony Dawson 11 When Is a Bastard Not a Bastard? Character and 214 Conscience in King John Camille Slights 12 Arming Cordelia: Character and Performance 232 Sarah Werner Index 250 Acknowledgments Five contributors to this volume are members of the Shakespeare and Performance Research Team, which is headquartered at McGill University and includes team members from Concordia University, the Université de Montréal, and the Université du Québec à Montréal. The robust literary-critical and theatrical life of the Shakespeare Team is, we think, well reflected in this volume. For one thing, the vitality of the team’s collaborative, interdisciplinary work over the past fifteen years (coupled of course with the timeliness and importance of the topic) has helped to recruit a number of other scholars who have added immeasurably to this book’s ability to rethink the category of character in Shakespeare studies. Our gratitude is threefold. We thank Tiffany Hoffman PhD student and research assistant for her excellent editorial work. We gratefully acknowledge the splendid support of the Fonds québécois de la recher- che sur la société et la culture (FQRSC). Mostly, however, we wish to acknowledge the vision, energy, and intellectual generosity of the founders of the Shakespeare Team, to whom this book is admiringly and affectionately dedicated. ix Notes on the Contributors and Editors James E. Berg is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Middlebury College in Vermont. Since receiving his PhD at Columbia University, he has taught Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at Iowa State University and in the Harvard Expository Writing Program. He is cur- rently working on a book, The Character of Shakespeare’s Plays. His other publications include an article on John Donne’s Holy Sonnets, in vol. 1 of the Scribner’s British Classics series, ed. Jay Parini, and articles in English Literary Renaissance (“This Dear Dear Land: Dearth and the Fantasy of the Land-Grab” in Richard II and Henry IV), and Studies in English Literature (“Gorboduc and the Tragic Remembrance of Feudalism”). André G. Bourassa is Professor Emeritus at the École supérieure de théâtre at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). He has pub- lished many articles on surrealism, literature, and theater. From 1979 to 1997, he directed an editorial project on the works of Paul-Émile Borduas. He is a founding member of the journal, Lettres québécoises, of the Union des écrivaines et écrivains du Québec, and of the Société québécoise d’études théâtrales, where he was for a number of years the president and editor of the journal, L’Annuaire théâtral. As a member of Commission des études de l’UQAM, he collaborated in the founding of the doctoral program in Études pratiques des arts. Michael Bristol’s (Department of English, McGill) work is primarily concerned with situating Shakespeare’s work in the social contexts of their production and reception. He has written three book-length studies of Shakespeare’s theater: Carnival and Theatre, Shakespeare’s America/America’s Shakespeare, and Big Time Shakespeare. Anthony Dawson is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia. His research interests include literary-historical scholarship on Renaissance drama, performance theory and history, and textual editing and theory of the text. He is presently
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