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Chronicles of the Time: Acting as Applied Criticism in Hamlet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Geoffrey Bent
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It is common to describe the end product of an actor's labour as ‘an interpretation’, but somehow the expression's serious, critical dimension is never fully intended. Only a scholar with his pipe and tweeds would seem to possess the appropriate gravity to render judicious overviews of this kind. When one wants to know what Hamlet is ‘about’, they naturally turn to heavily footnoted exegesis found in periodicals with circulations under a thousand. What could someone prancing before a number greater than this in a single evening, wearing grease paint and tights no less, possibly add to such an exalted investigation?

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Theatre Research International , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , Spring 1991 , pp. 17 - 29
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1991

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