%0 Book
%A Louis Fantasia
%D 2026
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9783034360920
%T Playing Shakespeare's Seemers and Deceivers
%R 10.3726/b23095
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1586526
%X In an era of fake news and media manipulation, where images and content can be manipulated anywhere and at any time, Playing Shakespeare’s Seemers and Deceivers focuses on Shakespeare’s master manipulators: the seemers, deceivers, and dissemblers, who, across the spectrum of Shakespeare’s plays, have a fluid and malleable (if not post-modern) approach to truth, identity, facts, and morality. There are notable seemers in the Histories (such as Richard III); deceivers in the Tragedies (Iago and Edmund); and dissemblers in the Comedies (Don John and Falstaff). Meanwhile Portia, Rosalind, Viola, and Julia, played by men dressed as women playing men, seem to be "seeming" for a nearly infinite variety of reasons. Distinguished theater practitioners,  scholars, and educators tackle truth, appearance, and self-presentation in the world in this wide-ranging anthology.
%K Playing Shakespeare's Seemers and Deceivers, Louis Fantasia, persona, masks, Seeming, Deception, Shakespeare
%G English