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1 online resource |
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The arden Shakespeare |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Works. 1995.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Anecdotal Shakespeare -- Tarlton's head -- Guildenstern's bassoon -- Shylock's son -- Richard's will -- 1 Hamlet: Skulls are good to think with -- Yorick's skulls -- Skull caps -- Like father, like son -- Ghost walkers -- 2 Othello: The smudge -- Pillow talk -- Desdemona's beard -- Another man -- The impossible fix -- One moor -- 3 Romeo and Juliet: Central casting -- Be some other name -- Old Montague -- Young Capulet -- Something old, something new ... -- Romeo must die -- Unromantic altitudes -- Duck! -- 4 Richard III: Oedipus text -- Olivier's Dick -- Richard's whose self again? -- Heart-throbs and hamstrings -- Booth's trunk -- 5 Macbeth: An embarrassment of witches -- The unfortunate comedy -- Of curses and kilts -- Tangible properties -- Crude mechanicals -- Stage frights -- Exeunt, cursing |
| Summary |
Shakespeare's four-hundred-year performance history is full of anecdotes ribald, trivial, frequently funny, sometimes disturbing, and always but loosely allegiant to fact. Such anecdotes are nevertheless a vital index to the ways that Shakespeare's plays have generated meaning across varied times and in varied places. Furthermore, particular plays have produced particular anecdotes stories of a real skull in Hamlet, superstitions about the name Macbeth, toga troubles in Julius Caesar and therefore express something embedded in the plays they attend. Anecdotes constitute then not just a vital component of a play's performance history but a form of vernacular criticism by the personnel most intimately involved in their production: actors. These anecdotes are therefore every bit as responsive to and expressive of a play's meanings across time as the equally rich history of Shakespearean criticism or indeed the very performances these anecdotes treat. Anecdotal Shakespeare provides a history of post-Renaissance Shakespeare and performance, one not based in fact but no less full of truth |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed June 24, 2015) |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Shakespearean actors and actresses -- Anecdotes
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Acting -- Anecdotes
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Shakespeare studies & criticism.
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Acting
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Shakespearean actors and actresses
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781472576187 |
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1472576187 |
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9781472576170 |
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1472576179 |
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1472576195 |
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9781472576194 |
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