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histrionicism

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His`tri`on´i`cism
n.1.The histrionic art; stageplaying.
histrionicism
a tendency to theatrical or exaggerated action. Also histriconism. — histrionics, n. — histrionic, adj.
See also: Behavior
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In Imaginary Audition, he challenges some recent versions of New Histrionicism by contending that plays ought to be read not only as scripts but also as literary texts, a view Lukas Erne draws on in Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (Berger xii, 24; Erne 25), and that exclusively text-centered armchair interpretation should be qualified to incorporate "the perspective of imaginary audition and playgoing" (Berger xiv).
Discordia concors: characterization problems of two Shakespearean ... by Yu, Sheng-yen / Fu Jen Studies: literature & linguistics
Further, we see Falstaffian sophistry, a kind of verbal histrionicism, borrowed and perfected by Prince Hal.
Puritanism in Comic History: Exposing Royalty in the Henry Plays by TIFFANY, GRACE / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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