Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

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

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

This wide and universal theater

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

74941701

Responsibility statement

David Bevington

Sub title

Shakespeare in performance, then and now

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Actions that a man might play : an introduction -- There lies the scene : actors and theaters in late Elizabethan England -- A local habitation and a name : stage business in the comedies -- Thus play I in one person many people : performing the histories -- Like a strutting player : staging moral ambiguity in Measure for measure and Troilus and Cressida -- The motive and the cue for passion : Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello in performance -- A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage : role-playing in King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra -- Insubstantial pageant : Shakespeare's farewell to the stage -- This falls out better than I could devise : an afterword

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