Hazarding All

Demonstrates how theatre and theatricalisation serve as the indispensable means for creating a kind of consciousness that exits as an unmediated encounter with actuality Shows the pervasiveness of Shakespeare’s chiasmus of theatricalisation: the back-and-forth, and forth-and-back, movements between role-playing consciousness and a would-be non-role-playing consciousness that is never free from role-playingDemonstrates and explains how Shakespeare opens a shared space of negativity within partner