Dear play goers, actors, directors, critics and researchers on theatre, how would you read and interpret Elizabethan dumb shows?
Zied Ben Amor
Think of Hamlet without the dumb show! One really even can’t! A dumb show tells a lot about the theatrics of that time and to what extent Elizabethan spectators were involved in the theatre. And when one thinks of the silent cinema and the pantomime, one realizes how a silent act can carry a powerful and loud message.
Thank you so much Michael Uebel for your feedback. I am indeed reading Mehl now. There is also one interesting article by B. R. Pearn. I will read your recommended articles. Happy new year and kindest regards.
Jinan F. B. Al-Hajaj Hello and thank you so much. I definitely agree with you. Indeed I have recently read one article going exactly in the same sense of your insightful idea of comparison between the dumb show and silent cinema. The idea of theatrics is also very interesting.
Michael Uebel Would it be possible to read the dumb show in Hamlet as an expression of suppressed desires and a subliminal act translating the Prince's craving to get rid of his uncle?
The dumb show it is a part of play presented in pantomime like in Hamlet by Shakespeare.
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