Watching ourselves watching Shakespeare--or--how am I supposed to look?
| Publisher | Shakespeare Bulletin |
| Publication | Shakespeare Bulletin |
| Subject | Arts, visual and performing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0748-2558 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Published | 2007-12-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Carol Chillington Rutter |
| Person | Works | William Shakespeare |
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I want to begin with John Carey thinking about the autobiographical account Jean-Paul Sartre wrote of himself in his first six years, a book that Sartre titled Words. Carey tells us that, like many "lonely children," Sartre "sought self-oblivion in books"--and in the cinema. "His mother took him and they gloated together in the warm dark. The films were silent, accompanied by a piano. When they got home she would play the piano and little Sartre, armed with his grandfather's paper knife in lieu of a rapier, would act out feats of daring, opening and shutting his mouth silently like...
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