Explores Shakespeares use of allegory as a privileged tool for making visible the inner workings of his characters minds
This book argues that Shakespeare turned staging problems into opportunities for complex characterization by mobilizing the semiotic potential of playhouse architecture, stage space, gestures, stage properties, performance style and audience participation. These features of production result in allegorical projections of the characters thoughts, in a way that reflects early modern fascination with the hidden workings of the human mind.
Claire Gueron is Senior Lecturer at the University of Burgundy (Universite de Bourgogne) in Dijon, France. Her research areas are early modern stage semiotics, the ethics of spectatorship and Shakespearean detective novels. Her recent publications include 'Figure and Figura in Henry V', in Francois Laroque (ed), William Shakespeare King Henry V, Paris: Ellipses, 2020, pp.65-80, 'Le double jeu de Nick Revill, detective Shakespearien', Textes et Contextes, vol. 14, no. 1 , [ online], June 16th, 2019. 'Never Shake thy Gory Locks at me: Objecting to Gesture in Macbeth', Interfaces: Texte, Image, Langage, vol.40, 2018. And 'Authorizing Laughter in The Duchess of Malfi', in Pascale Drouet and William C. Carroll (eds), Paris: Belin Education, 2018, pp. 204-19.
