Anecdotal Shakespeare: A New Performance History - Couverture souple

Menzer, Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1472576152 ISBN 13 : 9781472576156

Editeur : The Arden Shakespeare, 2015

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Shakespeares 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 Shakespeares 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 plays 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 plays 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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The Arden Shakespeare
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1472576152
• ISBN 13: 9781472576156
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280