Stages of play : Shakespeare's theatrical energies in Elizabethan performance /
This book begins with two assumptions: first, that Shakespeare wrote scripts for actors and audiences, not texts for readers; and second, that we can best appreciate how Shakespeare's scripts create dramatic meaning by attempting to visualize their performances in the theatrical settings for wh...
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University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses,
[1998], ©1998
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- 2. From Fiction to Reality: Character and Stagecraft in The Taming of the Shrew
- 3. Inner Plays and Mixed Responses in Love's Labor's Lost and A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 4. Shylock, Antonio, and The Merchant of Venice in Performance
- 5. Falstaff and the Theater of Subversion: The Audience as Thieves in I Henry IV
- 6. Disabling Joy: Dramatic Structure and Audience Response in Twelfth Night
- 7. Seeing and Believing: Audience Perception and the Character of Cressida in Performance
- 8. "Get You a Place": Staging the "Mousetrap" at the Globe Theatre.
- 1 Introduction
- 2. From Fiction to Reality: Character and Stagecraft in The Taming of the Shrew
- 3. Inner Plays and Mixed Responses in Love's Labor's Lost and A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 4. Shylock, Antonio, and The Merchant of Venice in Performance
- 5. Falstaff and the Theater of Subversion: The Audience as Thieves in I Henry IV
- 6. Disabling Joy: Dramatic Structure and Audience Response in Twelfth Night
- 7. Seeing and Believing: Audience Perception and the Character of Cressida in Performance
- 8. "Get You a Place": Staging the "Mousetrap" at the Globe Theatre.