Shakespeare's staged spaces and playgoers' perceptions
By: Darlene Farabee, Associate Professor of English, University of South Dakota, USA
Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781137427144
Subjects: Dramatic production; Criticism and interpretation; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama; LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare; LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-176) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgements; title: Note on Texts; title: Introduction; title: 1. Perceptions and Possibility in A Midsummer Night's Dream: 'To leave the figure or disfigure it'; title: 2. Grounded Action and Making Space in Richard II: 'How comest thou hither?'; title: 3. Narrative and Spatial Movement in Hamlet: 'To find his way'; title: 4. Place, Perception, and Disorientation in Macbeth: 'A walking shadow'; title: 5. Direction and Space in The Tempest: 'Through forth-rights and meanders'; title: Conclusion: Movements of Genre and Other Directions: 'As strange a maze'; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.