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Article: Dramatists against theory: the affective dramaturgy of Cinthio, Lope de Vega, and William Shakespeare.(Critical Essay)
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- Shakespeare Bulletin
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- December 22, 2004
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The reconstructed Globe encourages us to resite aesthetic discussions of Shakespeare's plays in the venue for which they were systematically and consciously designed by the playwright. These experiences should validate the procedures displayed in the scripts, but literary critics such as the New Historicists offer little direct discussion of theatrical events as a self-sufficient subject of critical exposition: the emphasis has tended to aesthetic, sociological, political, or even moralistic censure of texts. This negative emphasis is itself traditional, for (as Jonas Barish describes in The Anti-Theatrical Prejudice) it was shared by the theoreticians of the ...
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