Shakespeare's Staged Spaces and Playgoers' Perceptions [electronic resource] /
Farabee, D.author.
This engaging study offers fresh readings of canonical Shakespeare plays, illuminating ways stagecraft and language of movement create meaning for playgoers. The discussions engage materials from the period, present revelatory readings of Shakespeare's language, and demonstrate how these continually popular texts engage all of us in making meaning.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 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"; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This engaging study offers fresh readings of canonical Shakespeare plays, illuminating ways stagecraft and language of movement create meaning for playgoers. The discussions engage materials from the period, present revelatory readings of Shakespeare's language, and demonstrate how these continually popular texts engage all of us in making meaning.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Literature, Modern.
British literature.
Performing arts.
Poetry.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Performing Arts.
Poetry and Poetics.