Shakespeare’s Dramatic Transactions

Mooney, Michael

doi:10.1215/9780822382836

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“…Michael Mooney, for instance, in his 'well-focused study', 27 applies Weimann's 'complex idea of Figurenposition (or "figural positioning")' to Shakespeare's tragedies. 28 Although Mooney admits that 'a character did not have to move, literally, in order to create a shift in Figurenposition', his investment in 'the "traditional interplay" between a downstage place (or platea) and an upstage location (or locus)' 29 means that the spatial component of Weimann's formulation still figures very prominently throughout his work.…”

Section: Issues Of Stage Geographymentioning

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Performance Practice and Theatrical Privilege: Rethinking Weimann’s Concepts of Locus and Platea

Lin¹

2006

New Theatre Quarterly

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In this article, Erika T. Lin explores theatrical performance as a material medium by considering which elements might have been privileged in the dramaturgy of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. After considering the strengths and weaknesses of Robert Weimann’s influential concepts of locus and platea, she offers an alternative model for understanding the authority of performance in early modern England, in which stage geography and actor–audience interactivity, two key components of Weimann’s formulation, are less important than the interplay between representation and presentation. Through an analysis of specific scenes from a number of Shakespeare’s plays, she argues that the moments most privileged in the early modern playhouse were those that foregrounded the semiotic system through which actions presented onstage came to signify within the represented fiction. Erika T. Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Louisville. She is currently writing a book entitled Shakespeare and the Materiality of Performance, and is also beginning work on a new project which examines seasonal festivities, folk drama, and professional theatre in early modern England.

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Section: Issues Of Stage Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance Practice and Theatrical Privilege: Rethinking Weimann’s Concepts of Locus and Platea

Lin¹

2006

New Theatre Quarterly

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“…Several different software packages have been developed to optimize certain parameters, such as the choice of reflection planes, the degree of asymmetry, and energy resolution (Toellner, 1996). These programs include calculation of modified DuMond diagrams (Mooney, 1990); accurate 3-D (angle-energyreflectivity) throughput calculations of multiple-crystal systems, including the source divergence and bandpass (Toellner, 1998); and the complete treatment of multibeam excitations in single crystals, including exact backscattering (Colella, 1998).…”

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