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Stagecraft 2 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - He finds joy in marriages and neat ends
    - - Fear [of women] explored and acted out in safe and contained space of theatre (p. 80)
  - - - Deliberate artifice
  - - - 'responding to their own theatricality'
      - 7 ages metaphor 'makes the feigned forest of Arden as directly a stage as the actual globe'
      - 'engage the audience in an imaginative complicity with the theatrical fiction'
      - inner/outer audience *
    - - R connects O w Hercules - layers of text
      - characters in play often divide selves into audience and actors
    - - Pg 10 - AYLI begins w tragedy but R's exploits and love-testing save the day
- - - - 'drew abundantly from the language of the theater'
      - 'an analogy in Shakespeare's mind between life and the theater...which he himself makes explicit...which even the name of his own theater, the Globe, reinforces'
        
        'the metaphor was a Renaissance commonplace'
    - - 'the one play of Shakespeare that embodies his most personal statements about drama'
      - Bethell: 'double...reaction from the audience'...'establish verisimilitude'
        
        'aware of play-world and real world at once'
        
        'appearance more real and the fiction more true'
      - 'Hamlet as a dramatic character is manifestly interested in the aesthetics of drama'...'urges us to a sympathetic union with the characters'
    - - 'the impingement of appearance and reality upon each other'
        
        'theatre...becomes a symbol for...exposing the secret places of the human heart and objectifying them in a way without which they would be unbearable'
        
        Ham 3.2 'the purpose of playing...the mirror up to nature'
    - - 'it is by acting himself that he penetrates the "acts"' of other in the play
    - - 'the players acting promts Hamlet to action...the action he chooses is a theatrical one...Claudius...look[s] upon his own deepest secret through the agency of drama'
      - 'the theatre is the symbol of inner truth'
      - 'he both chooses his "role" and has it forced upon him'
    - - as watch final speech - 'we gain a deepened awareness that we, too, are actors playing roles and that our world is a theater'
    - - 'we are now at one with the stage audience' (when H dies)