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Recovering Shakespeare's Theatrical Vocabulary (Paperback, New ed)
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Recovering Shakespeare's Theatrical Vocabulary (Paperback, New ed)
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In this rigorous investigation of the staging of Shakespeare's
plays, Alan Dessen wrestlers with three linked questions: (1) what
did a playgoer at the original production actually see? (2) how can
we tell today? and (3) so what? His emphasis is upon images and
onstage effects (e.g. the sick-chair, early entrances, tomb scenes)
easily obscured or eclipsed today. The basis of his analysis is his
survey of the stage directions in the approximately 600 English
professional plays performed before 1642. From such widely
scattered bits of evidence emerges a vocabulary of the theatre
shared by Shakespeare, his theatrical colleagues, and his
playgoers, in which the terms (e.g. vanish, as in ..., as from ...,
"Romeo opens the tomb") often do not admit of neat dictionary
definitions but can be glossed in terms of options and potential
meanings. To explore such terms, along with various costumes and
properties (keys, trees, coffins, books), is to challenge
unexamined assumptions that underlie how Shakespeare is read,
edited, and staged today.
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