Stage Directions in Hamlet: New Essays and New DirectionsHardin L. Aasand Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2003 - 234 pages The subject of stage directions in 'Hamlet', those brief semiotic codes that are embellished by historical, theatrical, and cultural considerations, produces a rigorous examination in the fifteen essays contained in this collection. This volume encompasses essays that are guardedly inductive in their critical approaches, as well as those that critique modern productions that attempt to achieve Shakespearean effect through a modern aesthetic. The volume also includes essays that enunciate the production of stage business as a cultural interplay between productions and social agencies outside the theater. |
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... Elizabethan Stage Directions challenges the all - too - frequent diminution of stage directions as critical elements of scholarly attention . McJannet observes that stage directions found in early texts are the implicit voices of ...
... Elizabethan Stage Directions challenges the all - too - frequent diminution of stage directions as critical elements of scholarly attention . McJannet observes that stage directions found in early texts are the implicit voices of ...
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... Elizabethan drama , and he directs his efforts at nothing less than the " recovering " or semi- otic excavation of staged meaning in Renaissance drama , as his recent Dictionary of English Stage Directions attests.3 The focus on these ...
... Elizabethan drama , and he directs his efforts at nothing less than the " recovering " or semi- otic excavation of staged meaning in Renaissance drama , as his recent Dictionary of English Stage Directions attests.3 The focus on these ...
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... Elizabethan stage directions and the tenuous survival of those directions for the modern audience should not allow us to resign ourselves to an arbitrary treatment of stage directions , one in which all dramatic choices become ...
... Elizabethan stage directions and the tenuous survival of those directions for the modern audience should not allow us to resign ourselves to an arbitrary treatment of stage directions , one in which all dramatic choices become ...
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... Elizabethan stage . In one instance , at least , Jenkins appears to be inconsistent in his approach . At 3.4.103 he prints the SD , " Enter GHOST . " This represents not only Q2's wording , but F's too ( although Samuel Singer's emended ...
... Elizabethan stage . In one instance , at least , Jenkins appears to be inconsistent in his approach . At 3.4.103 he prints the SD , " Enter GHOST . " This represents not only Q2's wording , but F's too ( although Samuel Singer's emended ...
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... Elizabethan drama , where it is common enough for location to be undefined , and for it to change in the course of a scene . The Editorial Tradition Previous editors of Hamlet in the Arden Shakespeare series express their doubts about ...
... Elizabethan drama , where it is common enough for location to be undefined , and for it to change in the course of a scene . The Editorial Tradition Previous editors of Hamlet in the Arden Shakespeare series express their doubts about ...
Contents
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Entrances in the Ophelia Sequence of Hamlet | 33 |
Exit by Indirection Finding Directions Out | 42 |
Hamlets Stage Directions to the Players | 47 |
Explicit Stage Directions Especially Graphics in Hamlet | 74 |
The Case against Tidiness | 92 |
Tis heere Tis gone The Ghost in the Text | 101 |
To Soliloquize or Not to Soliloquize Hamlets To be Speech in Q1 and Q2F | 115 |
The Stage Directions Overt and Covert of Hamlet 51 | 140 |
Interpolations Extended Scenes and Musical Accompaniment in Kenneth Branaghs Hamlet | 161 |
Properties and Stage Business in Hamlet 34 | 170 |
Visual Representations of the Graveyard Scene in Hamlet | 189 |
Hamlet Yorick and the Chopless Stage Direction | 214 |
Afterword | 226 |
Contributors | 228 |
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