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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... Essays and New Directions Edited by Hardin L. Aasand Fairleigh Dickinson Madison Teaneck Fairleigh Dickinson University Press London : Associated University Presses © 2003 by Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corp. All rights Stage Directions.
... Essays and New Directions Edited by Hardin L. Aasand Fairleigh Dickinson Madison Teaneck Fairleigh Dickinson University Press London : Associated University Presses © 2003 by Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corp. All rights Stage Directions.
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... Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984 . Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Stage directions in Hamlet : new essays and new directions / edited by Hardin L. Aasand . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and ...
... Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984 . Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Stage directions in Hamlet : new essays and new directions / edited by Hardin L. Aasand . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and ...
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... printed in the right - hand margin " It spreads I his armes . " The 1676 Quarto prints " He spreads his arms ... printing " Ghost spreads its arms . " If this were dialogue , no editor would interfere with those words . Enter Hamlet ...
... printed in the right - hand margin " It spreads I his armes . " The 1676 Quarto prints " He spreads his arms ... printing " Ghost spreads its arms . " If this were dialogue , no editor would interfere with those words . Enter Hamlet ...
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... printed as part of the same line as the SD " A noise within . " So , is the noise made by Ophelia or someone else ? And what is one to make of the phrase " Let her come in " ? To tackle the second question first , six possibilities are ...
... printed as part of the same line as the SD " A noise within . " So , is the noise made by Ophelia or someone else ? And what is one to make of the phrase " Let her come in " ? To tackle the second question first , six possibilities are ...
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... printed in sequence , not in parallel , but they will be annotated only where they differ from Q2 ; hence the commentary on F will be quite light . We shall assume that readers of the second volume have access to the first volume but ...
... printed in sequence , not in parallel , but they will be annotated only where they differ from Q2 ; hence the commentary on F will be quite light . We shall assume that readers of the second volume have access to the first volume but ...
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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