Shakespeare's staged spaces and playgoers' perception /

This lively and engaging study offers fresh readings of some of Shakespeare's most canonical plays, illuminating the ways stagecraft and language of movement create meaning for us as playgoers. Including discussions of other plays, the book carefully explores A Midsummer Night's Dream, Ric...

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Main Author:	Farabee, Darlene (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:	Palgrave Shakespeare studies.
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Dramatic production. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama. LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare. LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.

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Summary:	This lively and engaging study offers fresh readings of some of Shakespeare's most canonical plays, illuminating the ways stagecraft and language of movement create meaning for us as playgoers. Including discussions of other plays, the book carefully explores A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard II, Hamlet, Macbeth and The Tempest to develop a better understanding of how implicit stagecraft elements work in concert with explicit rhetorical patterns in the plays. The discussions engage with materials from Shakespeare's time, present revelatory close readings of Shakespeare's language, and demonstrate how these continually popular texts engage all of us in making meaning.
Physical Description:	xi, 180 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-176) and index.
ISBN:	9781137427144 (hardback) 1137427140 (hardback)