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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aasand, Hardin L., 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Technique.

Hamlet--(Legendary character).

Stage directions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The subject of stage directions in 'Hamlet', those brief semiotic codes that are embellished by historical, theatrical, and cultural considerations, produces a rigorous examination in the fifteen essays contained in this collection. This volume encompasses essays that are guardedly inductive in their critical approaches, as well as those that critique modern productions that attempt to achieve Shakespearean effect through a modern aesthetic. The volume also includes essays that enunciate the production of stage business as a cultural interplay between productions and social agencies outside the theater.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Part I Editing the Stage Directions

Variable Texts: Stage Directions in Arden 3 Hamlet

Offstage Noise and Onstage Action: Entrances in the Ophelia Sequence of Hamlet

Exit by Indirection, Finding Directions Out

Hamlet's Stage Directions to the Players

Explicit Stage Directions (Especially Graphics) in Hamlet

" . . . and Laertes":The Case against Tidiness

Part II Staging the Stage Directions

" 'Tis heere. 'Tis gone." The Ghost in the Text

To Soliloquize or Not to Soliloquize-Hamlet's "To be" Speech in Q1 and Q2/F

"I there's the point" in Context: Theatricality and Authorship

The Stage Directions, Overt and Covert, of Hamlet 5.1

Part III Envisioning the Stage Directions

"To See or Not To See": Interpolations, Extended Scenes, and Musical Accompaniment in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet

Pictures in the Closet: Properties and Stage Business in Hamlet 3.4

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Visual Representations of the Graveyard Scene in Hamlet

"Pah! Puh!":Hamlet, Yorick, and the Chopless Stage Direction

Afterword

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8386-4440-6

OCLC:

787844652