Anecdotal Shakespeare: A New Performance History (Arden

Anecdotal Shakespeare: A New Performance History (Arden Shakespeare)

Shakespeare's four-hundred-year performance history is full of anecdotes â€“ ribald, trivial, frequently funny, sometimes disturbing, and always but loosely allegiant to fact. Such anecdotes are nevertheless a vital index to the ways that Shakespeare's plays have generated meaning across varied times and in varied places. Furthermore, particular plays have produced particular anecdotes â€“ stories of a real skull in Hamlet, superstitions about the name Macbeth, toga troubles in Julius Caesar â€“ and therefore express something embedded in the plays they attend. Anecdotes constitute then not just a vital component of a play's performance history but a form of vernacular criticism by the personnel most intimately involved in their production: actors. These anecdotes are therefore every bit as responsive to and expressive of a play's meanings across time as the equally rich history of Shakespearean criticism or indeed the very performances these anecdotes treat. Anecdotal Shakespeare provides a history of post-Renaissance Shakespeare and performance, one not based in fact but no less full of truth.

Country	USA
Author	Paul Menzer
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9781472576156
ISBN	1472576152
Label	Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Manufacturer	Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
MPN	10 bw illus
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	280
PartNumber	10 bw illus
PublicationDate	2015-10-22
Publisher	Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
ReleaseDate	2015-10-22
Studio	Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Anecdotal Shakespeare: A New Performance History (Arden Shakespeare)