Playing Shakespeare's villains /

When we speak of Shakespeare's 'villains' we think we know who comes immediately to mind. Iago, Richard III, Edmund in Lear, Aaron the Moor, Lady Macbeth, etc. People who do bad things to nice people. But what about Macbeth, Caliban, Regan and Goneril? Evil? Victims? What about Boling...

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Other Authors: Fantasia, Louis, 1949- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, [2019]
Series:Playing Shakespeare's characters ; vol. 2
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505 0 |a Introduction : playing Shakespeare's villains : bloody, bawdy, remorseless, treacherous, lecherous / Louis Fantasia -- "Something wicked this way comes" : (re)locating the supernatural world of Macbeth / Janna Segal -- "A few drams of Eale" : an overview of evil in Shakespeare's plays / Timothy Harris -- "He that plays the king shall be welcome" / Armin Shimerman -- Damned, smiling villains : the pleasure of not caring / Brian Lohmann -- Edit Villareal behind closed doors : sex, lies and servants -- Iachimo : "By villainy I got this ring" / Louis Scheeder -- "Tis a vile thing to die" : teaching villainy in the public school classroom / Charmaine Cordero -- "Very fine people" / Louis Fantasia -- On the nature of evil / Clifford Librach. 
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