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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Bibliographic Details
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.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Note on Texts
Introduction
1. Perceptions and Possibility in A Midsummer Night's Dream: 'To leave the figure or disfigure it'
2. Grounded Action and Making Space in Richard II: 'How comest thou hither?'
3. Narrative and Spatial Movement in Hamlet: 'To find his way'
4. Place, Perception, and Disorientation in Macbeth: 'A walking shadow'
5. Direction and Space in The Tempest: 'Through forth-rights and meanders'
Conclusion: Movements of Genre and Other Directions: 'As strange a maze'
Notes
Bibliography
Index.