Stage directions in Hamlet : new essays and new directions / edited by Hardin L. Aasand.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aasand, Hardin L., 1958-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Technique.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Technique.

Hamlet (Legendary character).

Hamlet.

Stage directions.

Physical Description:

234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2003]

Contents:

Variable texts: stage directions in Arden 3 Hamlet / Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor

Offstage noise and onstage action: entrances in the Ophelia sequence of Hamlet / June Schlueter and James P. Lusardi

Exit by indirection, finding directions out / George Walton Williams

Hamlet's stage directions to the players / James Hirsh

Explicit stage directions (especially graphics) in Hamlet / Bernice W. Kliman

"...and Laertes": the case against tidiness / Pamela Mason

"'Tis heere. 'Tis gone." The ghost in the text / David G. Brailow

To soliloquize or not to soliloquize

Hamlet's "To be" speech in Q1 and Q2/F / Edna Zwick Boris

"I there's the point" in context: theatricality and authorship / Steven Urkowitz

The stage directions, overt and covert, of Hamlet 5.1 / John C. Meagher

"To see or not to see": interpolations, extended scenes, and musical accompaniment in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet / Iska Alter

Pictures in the closet: properties and stage business in Hamlet 3.4 / Frank Nicholas Clary

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century visual representations of the graveyard scene in Hamlet / Alan R. Young

"Pah! Puh!": Hamlet, Yorick, and the chopless stage direction / Hardin L. Aasand.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0838639461

OCLC:

49942402