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Title:
"Shakespeare Remembers! Shakespeare Remembered!"
Author:
Pearce, David.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Establishes The Rose Theatre, the first playhouse on Bankside, as a place where Shakespeare and his contemporary playwrights observed each others' works and exchanged influences. French and English summaries, 225.

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"Reconnaissance et 'acknowledgment' sur la scène élisabéthaine"
Author:
Brailowsky, Yan.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Arrêt sur scène/Scene Focus 2 (2013): 49–59. (http://tinyurl.com/mbcqmch)
Annotation:

Draws on King Lear, Winter's Tale, and Twelfth Night to highlight "the epistemological and hermeneutic issues posed by 'recognition scenes'" in early modern drama and to underline "the differences between plays and genres from 1580 to 1620 in England." "Discusses the interplay between knowledge, acknowledgment, disowning and confession in recognition scenes." French and English summaries.

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"La scène de reconnaissance: Allégorie politique et métaphore de l'adaptation dans The History of King Lear de Nahum Tate (1681)"
Author:
March, Florence.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Arrêt sur scène/Scene Focus 2 (2013): 109–19. (http://tinyurl.com/mbcqmch)
Annotation:

Compares Edgar's recognition scenes in King Lear and Nahum Tate's adaptation, arguing that in the latter Edgar's "'second birth' is experienced at both historical and dramatic levels" and that the recognition scenes "explore new aesthetic tracks in the Restoration context in which the theatre must be reinvented." French and English summaries.

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"La reconnaissance (anagnorisis) comme passage dans Le Roi Jean, Périclès et Le Roi Lear de William Shakespeare"
Author:
Thoret, Yves.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Arrêt sur scène/Scene Focus 2 (2013): 93–108. (http://tinyurl.com/mbcqmch)
Annotation:

Analyzes Aristotle's three kinds of transformation (cognitive, affective, and change of destiny) in recognition scenes in King John, Pericles, and King Lear. French and English summaries.

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Title:
"'Ce jeu n'est un jeu, mais une vérité': Effets de reconnaissance de l'acteur baroque"
Author:
Treilhou-Balaudé, Catherine.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Arrêt sur scène/Scene Focus 2 (2013): 37–48. (http://tinyurl.com/mbcqmch)
Annotation:

Uses Hamlet and Midsummer Nght's Dream to explore recognition strategies and their effect on internal and external spectators in the play-within-a play structure characteristic of both Shakespeare and baroque theater. French and English summaries.

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"Pyrame et Thisbé revisité par Shakespeare et Vilar dans Le songe de'une nuit d'été: Le théâtre populaire en abyme"
Author:
March, Florence.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Arrêt sur scène/Scene Focus 1 (2013): 105–15. (http://tinyurl.com/mbcqmch)
Annotation:

Explores how the Pyramus and Thisbe playlet in Jean Vilar's Midsummer Night's Dream (Avignon Festival, 1959) "crystallises Vilar's vision and practice of popular theatre in many ways." English and French summaries.

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