Features of the acting performance of the character of Macbeth in Iraqi theatre performances

Abstract

Abstract

     For long periods of time, acting performance in the theater remained devoid of theory except for some observations that appeared at the end of the seventeenth century when Diderot presented his theory, which was the basis for the emergence of diagnostic schools at the hands of the French actor (Coquelin), and then the schools of acting performance that appeared at the hands of all... From (Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Brecht, Krotowski, Artaud, and Barba, all the way to post-modern performance), which became an integrated approach followed by the actor to reach the role, as it achieved success and became a method and follower, and this is what made it move from one place to another and from one country to another country. This is what prompted the researcher to study The subject of (Features of the acting performance of the character of Macbeth), as this research consisted of four, presented the mechanism of acting performance in the romantic doctrine, and how to build the character according to Shakespeare in his theatrical texts, and determined the formation of the dimensions of the character of Macbeth. The researcher relied on theories of psychology in the process of drawing Dramatic character behavior.

Keywords: Features, Performance, Character, Shakespeare, Macbeth.