Shakespeare : Readers, Audiences, Players

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A new collection of essays by well-known international and Australian Shakespearean critics, who explore the idea that readers, editors, audiences, players and directors create meanings as clearly as do Shakespeare's texts. These interpretations of the plays will be of interest to students and scholars alike.
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A new collection of essays by well-known international and Australian Shakespearean critics, who explore the idea that readers, editors, audiences, players and directors create meanings as clearly as do Shakespeare's texts. These interpretations of the plays will be of interest to students and scholars alike.
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A collection of essays by well-know international and Australian Shakespearean critics, exploring the idea that readers, editors, audiences, players, and directors create meanings as clearly as do Shakespeare's texts. The critical trend exemplified in this collection generates a new model of universality and proves that Shakespeare has been reinstated at the heart of the study of popular culture. Essays were first presented at a 1994 symposium. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781876268138
  • Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
  • Publication date: 9/19/1998
  • Series: Shakespearean Critics
  • Pages: 296

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
Romantic Players, Political Theatres 6
Readers, Audiences, Players and the Beauties of Shakespeare 29
'Murder Most Foul': Shakespeare in the Detective Novel 47
Shakespeare with No Audience 56
The Bard and the Dragon: Shakespeare in China 64
Noh Hamlet 74
Shakespearean Misogyny 80
Shakespeare and Politics 91
'What Is Asking and What Is Wondring': Dramatic Punctuation in Shakespeare 106
Boy Actors in Women's Roles 121
Shakespeare in Translation: The Trial Scene in The Merchant of Venice 131
Much Ado About Lying 140
Playing Measure for Measure 168
The Better Concludes a Worse?: Shakespeare, Macbeth and Disorder 182
Journey to the Chapel Perilous: The Quest in Othello 195
Putting out the Light: A 'Snuff' Variant? 207
Blackface and Madonna: Race and Gender as Conditions of Reception in Recovering Othello 220
'Hear Me Speak': Listening to Coriolanus 233
Antigonus's Dream 248
The Culture of Slavery: Caliban and Ariel 260
Material Magic in The Winter's Tale and The Tempest 272
Notes on Contributors 287
Index 291
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