John H. Astington

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Astington, John H. 2006 Actors and the body: Meta-theatrical rhetoric in Shakespeare Gesture, ritual and memory, Bouissac, Paul (ed.), pp. 241–259 | Article
The ways in which the performing of gesture is inscribed into the very texts of Shakespeare’s plays constitutes a “meta-theatrical” and “meta-gestural” discourse which this article analyses with reference to Hamlet, Othello, The Winter’s Tale and Twelfth Night. Shakespeare is shown to be a… read more