Shakespeare's Speaking PropertiesBucknell University Press, 1991 - 222 pages This book is the first attempt to discuss systematically the properties in Shakespeare's plays, and analyzes the properties that Shakespeare specifies either explicitly in stage directions or implicitly in speeches. Property lists for all of Shakespeare's plays and frequency tables for various categories of property are included. |
Contents
Preface | 9 |
The Good Properties of Bad Quartos | 35 |
Objects Comic and Comedic | 54 |
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action actor appearance associated audience banquet becomes body calls carry casket changes character clearly colors comedies comic conventional Coriolanus corpse costume course critics crown dead death discussion effect enters establish example Falstaff's feast Finally folio FOLIO QUARTO A-S-L function gives guests Hamlet hand head Henry holds identity important KIND FOLIO QUARTO king language later laughter Lear letter light lines Macbeth mark meaning metaphor nature night object occur offers onstage Othello particular performance play play's present problem properties quarto QUARTO A-S-L PROPERTY question references regard Renaissance Richard riches ring role says scene seems serve Shakespeare's signal skull social specify spectacle spectacular scenes speech stage statue stone suggest supernatural sword symbolic Timon tion Titus tokens torches tragedies understand verbal violence visual weapons wear