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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2015.
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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.