| Collation |
xi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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| Note |
This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-230) and index. |
| Contents |
Actions that a man might play : an introduction -- There lies the scene : actors and theaters in late Elizabethan England -- A local habitation and a name : stage business in the comedies -- Thus play I in one person many people : performing the histories -- Like a strutting player : staging moral ambiguity in Measure for measure and Troilus and Cressida -- The motive and the cue for passion : Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello in performance -- A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage : role-playing in King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra -- Insubstantial pageant : Shakespeare's farewell to the stage -- This falls out better than I could devise : an afterword. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production -- Methodology.
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| ISBN |
9780226044781 (alk. paper) |
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0226044785 (alk. paper) |
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