Pivotal Lines in Shakespeare and Others

Finding the Heart of the Play

By:

Sidney Homan

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Hardback

Series:

Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

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Sidney Homan defines a pivotal line as “a moment in the script that serves as a pathway into the larger play … a magnet to which the rest of the play, scenes before and after, adheres.” He offers his personal choices of such lines in five plays by Shakespeare and works by Beckett, Brecht, Pinter, Shepard, and Stoppard. Drawing on his own experience in the theatre as actor and director and on campus as a teacher and scholar, he pairs a Shakespearean play with one by a modern playwright as mirrors for each other. One reviewer calls his approach “ground-breaking.” Another observes that his “experience with the particular plays he has chosen is invaluable” since it allows us to find “a wedge into such iconic texts.” Academics and students alike will find this volume particularly useful in aiding their own discovery of a pivotal line or moment in the experience of reading about, watching, or performing in a play.

Author Biography:

Sidney Homan is Professor of English at the University of Florida. Author of 13 books and editor of nine collections of essays on the works of Shakespeare and modern playwrights, he is also an actor and director in commercial and university theatres. His prize-winning Beckett’s Theatres: Interpretations for Performance emerged from a tour of the Florida prisons with Waiting for Godot; and in A Fish in the Moonlight, he recounts his experience as a Visiting Artist telling stories of his youth in Philly to young patients on his university hospital’s Pediatric Oncology Ward. Chosen as his university’s Teacher/Scholar of the Year, he is also a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars.

Release date Australia

June 29th, 2023

Author

Sidney Homan

Series

Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

Pages

216

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

ISBN-13

9781032348629

Product ID

36312625

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