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Shakespeare, Performance and Embodied Cognition
2019
This submission draws upon a range of evidence to account for the non-verbal features of theatrical performance. By blending rhetoric and gesture studies with psychology, I shed light on the acting of Shakespeare's plays in the past, and ask what a scientifically-informed analysis of non-verbal communication can bring to actor training and performance theory. The centrepiece is a book which uncovers a key concept from Classical oratory of 'decorum' and explains how this concept became central
doi:10.15126/thesis.00853217
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