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Chapter 3 - Emotions, Gesture, and Race in the Early Modern Playhouse

from Part I - Players

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2022

Simon Smith
Affiliation:
Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
Emma Whipday
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle
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Summary

This chapter examines how early modern plays, if viewed as kinetic maps, articulate how an actor’s body reflects emotion through a range of gestural utterances that can perhaps be felt kinetically by audiences; it does so through the lens of race and performance. Taking Burbage’s performance of Othello as a case study and Imtiaz Habib’s documentary evidence of black lives in Tudor and Stuart England, Karim-Cooper speculates about black presence in the audience. As such theorizing about the relationship between movement, racial impersonation and audience response can unearth a reciprocal dynamic that forms the basis of early modern theatrical performance.

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Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England
Actor, Audience and Performance
, pp. 57 - 76
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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