For the Renaissance, all the world may have been a stage and all its people players, but Shakespeare was also an actor on the literal stage. Meredith Anne Skura

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A comparative survey of the major approaches to Western acting since the 19th century

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Examines the role of Elizabethan drama in the shape of cultural belief, values, and understanding of political authority.