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A y l i n g page 1 "Again and again in Shakespeare we are tantalised by the possibility of an escape from theatricality and the constant pressure of power, but we are, after all, in the theatre, and our pleasure depends upon the fact that there is no escape, and our applause ratifies the triumph of our confinement" (Stephen Greenblatt). Consider the implications of this remark for our enjoyment of Shakespearean drama. Stephen Greenblatt's remark implies that "theatricality" and "the constant pressure of power" are linked. I will examine how power uses theatricality to confine us and ask why we applaud this. I take theatricality to mean the artifice of "manner, speech [and] gesture" which is, in the words of the Concise Oxford Dictionary "calculated for effect"1. Theatricality is ritualised in theatre, and for this reason I closely associate the two in exploring the relationships firstly between theatricality and power, and consequently between confinement and enjoyment.
Ayling page 3 honesty of his tears, but in his formation of the round, he consciously puts himself centre stage and uses Caesar's body as a prop to move the audience's passions.
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