Metafory i praktyki teatru
Theatrical Metaphors and Practices

Author(s): Georges Banu
Contributor(s): Piotr Szymanowski (Translator)
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Shakespeare; theatrical practices; stage sets; manners of characterization
Summary/Abstract: The attempts at describing theatre inform all works of Shakespeare though he never offers a consistent and homogeneous declaration of principles. The article is a brief survey of the multiplicity of references to the theatre and various practices known by men of the stage such as Shakespeare himself along with the metaphorical, or even symbolic use of these theatrical patterns, stage sets, actors and manners of characterization. If for Shakespeare all the world’s a stage, it is reasonable to explore the distribution of patterns underneath the plentitude of theatrical allusions scattered over his whole work.

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