This wide and universal theater : Shakespeare in performance, then and now / David Bevington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bevington, David M.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production--Methodology.

Methodology.

Physical Description:

xi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Contents:

1 Actions That a Man Might Play: An Introduction 1

2 There Lies the Scene: Actors and Theaters in Late Elizabethan England 11

3 A Local Habitation and a Name: Stage Business in the Comedies 39

4 Thus Play I in One Person Many People: Performing the Histories 73

5 Like a Strutting Player: Staging Moral Ambiguity in Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida 105

6 The Motive and the Cue for Passion: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello in Performance 129

7 A Poor Player That Struts and Frets His Hour upon the Stage: Role-playing in King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra 159

8 Insubstantial Pageant: Shakespeare's Farewell to the Stage 191

9 This Falls Out Better Than I Could Devise: An Afterword 219.

Notes:

This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-230) and index.

ISBN:

9780226044781

0226044785

OCLC:

74941701

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