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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... theater , this volume is designed to further the close examination of the stage direction as reflective of Renaissance theatrical practice and to expand upon the work of Alan Desssen , Leslie Thomson , and David Beving- ton . For ...
... theater , this volume is designed to further the close examination of the stage direction as reflective of Renaissance theatrical practice and to expand upon the work of Alan Desssen , Leslie Thomson , and David Beving- ton . For ...
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... Theater , 1986. Photo by Liz Lauren . 105 Frontispiece for Hamlet , Nicholas Rowe's edition ( 1709 ) . 173 " William Charles Macready as Hamlet , at the Princess ' Theatre " ( 1845 ) . 178 Frontispiece engraved by J. Thornton for an ...
... Theater , 1986. Photo by Liz Lauren . 105 Frontispiece for Hamlet , Nicholas Rowe's edition ( 1709 ) . 173 " William Charles Macready as Hamlet , at the Princess ' Theatre " ( 1845 ) . 178 Frontispiece engraved by J. Thornton for an ...
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... theater , this volume is designed to further the close examination of the stage direction as reflective of Renais- sance theatrical practice and to expand upon the work of Alan Dessen and David Bevington . For students of Shakespeare ...
... theater , this volume is designed to further the close examination of the stage direction as reflective of Renais- sance theatrical practice and to expand upon the work of Alan Dessen and David Bevington . For students of Shakespeare ...
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... theater . The first section of essays , " Editing the Stage Directions , " examines the stage direction from the perspective of the editorial treatment in the disposition of stage directions . Neil Taylor and Ann Thompson inaugu- rate ...
... theater . The first section of essays , " Editing the Stage Directions , " examines the stage direction from the perspective of the editorial treatment in the disposition of stage directions . Neil Taylor and Ann Thompson inaugu- rate ...
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... theater history to underscore the deictic power of " this " and the interpretative strategies for staging the " counterfeit presentment of two brothers . " Alan Young , in an essay commissioned for this volume , analyzes the rich ...
... theater history to underscore the deictic power of " this " and the interpretative strategies for staging the " counterfeit presentment of two brothers . " Alan Young , in an essay commissioned for this volume , analyzes the rich ...
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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