Understanding Shakespeare's Plays in Performance

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Every year, hundreds of thousands of people buy tickets to see Shakespeare's plays performed. No other playwright commands the kind of interest that Shakespeare does.

Shakespeare's plays have something for everyone. In performance, moreover, they are much more accessible than they are when read from heavily annotated texts, for performances somehow provide all the annotation we need, or enough of it; they make the plays live.

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Every year, hundreds of thousands of people buy tickets to see Shakespeare's plays performed. No other playwright commands the kind of interest that Shakespeare does.

Shakespeare's plays have something for everyone. In performance, moreover, they are much more accessible than they are when read from heavily annotated texts, for performances somehow provide all the annotation we need, or enough of it; they make the plays live.

In a very real sense, Understanding Shakespeare's Plays in Performance allows you the experience of attending a play rehearsal. During rehearsals, various aspects of staging and interpretation are worked out. In the process, one becomes aware of the many aspects of presenting Shakespeare that in performance might never become evident. Being on the inside, as it were, provides a new perspective, an insight into the complexities of production that cannot help but inform our judgment even as it illuminates our understanding.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780719026997
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publication date: 7/1/1988
  • Pages: 112

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: Why This Book? 1
Chapter I Finding the Text 7
Chapter II Finding the Set Design 20
Chapter III Finding the Characters 31
Chapter IV Finding the Subtext 39
Chapter V Finding the Language 50
Chapter VI Finding the Stage Business, Music, and Other Effects 62
Chapter VII Finding Coherence: the Overall Interpretation 72
Epilogue: The Enjoyment of Shakespeare 83
Notes 86
Bibliography 94
Index 97
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