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Anecdotal Shakespeare : a new performance history /

Shakespeare's 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 Shakespeare's plays have generated meaning across varie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Menzer, Paul, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015.
Colección:Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Works. 1995.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Anecdotal Shakespeare
  • Tarlton's head
  • Guildenstern's bassoon
  • Shylock's son
  • Richard's will
  • 1 Hamlet: Skulls are good to think with
  • Yorick's skulls
  • Skull caps
  • Like father, like son
  • Ghost walkers
  • 2 Othello: The smudge
  • Pillow talk
  • Desdemona's beard
  • Another man
  • The impossible fix
  • One moor
  • 3 Romeo and Juliet: Central casting
  • Be some other name
  • Old Montague
  • Young Capulet
  • Something old, something new ...
  • Romeo must die
  • Unromantic altitudes
  • Duck!
  • 4 Richard III: Oedipus text
  • Olivier's Dick
  • Richard's whose self again?
  • Heart-throbs and hamstrings
  • Booth's trunk
  • 5 Macbeth: An embarrassment of witches
  • The unfortunate comedy
  • Of curses and kilts
  • Tangible properties
  • Crude mechanicals
  • Stage frights
  • Exeunt, cursing.