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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... dramatic coher- ence between action and word , a play that remains universally relevant as a study of the modern condition . For those engaged in theatrical productions , these essays present a rich record of cinematic and staged ...
... dramatic coher- ence between action and word , a play that remains universally relevant as a study of the modern condition . For those engaged in theatrical productions , these essays present a rich record of cinematic and staged ...
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... dramatic effects of the scenes they control.2 Hammond and McJannet make a co- gent case for critical approaches that will generate " intellectual justice " for consideration of a textual feature that is often regarded as " stage busi ...
... dramatic effects of the scenes they control.2 Hammond and McJannet make a co- gent case for critical approaches that will generate " intellectual justice " for consideration of a textual feature that is often regarded as " stage busi ...
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... dramatic conversation between the Renaissance dramatist and his actors and audience . As Dessen observes , such engage- ment risks the " contamination " by modern production values and esthetic effects produced by an onstage logic that ...
... dramatic conversation between the Renaissance dramatist and his actors and audience . As Dessen observes , such engage- ment risks the " contamination " by modern production values and esthetic effects produced by an onstage logic that ...
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... dramatic productions . 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 esthetic ...
... dramatic productions . 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 esthetic ...
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... dramatic use of stage directions , with his chief protagonist Hamlet taking up the directorial mantle as an ironic foil for Shakespeare himself . Pamela Mason hearkens back to Taylor and Thompson's editorial predicament of treating ...
... dramatic use of stage directions , with his chief protagonist Hamlet taking up the directorial mantle as an ironic foil for Shakespeare himself . Pamela Mason hearkens back to Taylor and Thompson's editorial predicament of treating ...
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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