"'Art so unnatural and disgusting': Idealisations of the Human in Early Actors' Manuals and Hamlet's Advice to the Players"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc445/
Author:
	Seymour, Laura.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2013
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare Institute Review 2 (2013): 11–16. (http://www.shakesreview.com)
Annotation:
	Studies the idealized portrayal of human behavior and passions in eighteenth-century acting manuals that rely heavily on examples from Shakespeare (especially Hamlet's advice to the Players), arguing that "manuals dealing with Shakespearean stage practice were, as arbiters of taste, vigorous advocates of a kind of superhumanity which only shows the most decorous parts of humanity onstage."
Language:
	English
Keywords:
	Hamlet; acting manual; passion
Tags:
	Actors, Acting, Directors, Directing, Hamlet, Productions
WSB Update:
	Fall 2013
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc445