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  Title

  This wide and universal theater : Shakespeare in performance, then and now

  Author

  Bevington, David M.  

  Publisher:

  University of Chicago Press,

  Pub date:

  2007.

  Pages:

  xi, 242 p. :

  ISBN:

  9780226044781

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    PR3091 .B485 2007	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9780226044781 (alk. paper)

  ISBN:

  0226044785 (alk. paper)

  Personal Author:

  Bevington, David M.

  Title:

  This wide and universal theater : Shakespeare in performance, then and now / David Bevington.

  Publication info:

  Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

  Physical description:

  xi, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

  General Note:

  This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions.

  Contents:

  Actions that a man might play : an introduction -- There lies the scene : actors and theaters in late Elizabethan England -- A local habitation and a name : stage business in the comedies -- Thus play I in one person many people : performing the histories -- Like a strutting player : staging moral ambiguity in Measure for measure and Troilus and Cressida -- The motive and the cue for passion : Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello in performance -- A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage : role-playing in King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra -- Insubstantial pageant : Shakespeare's farewell to the stage -- This falls out better than I could devise : an afterword.

  Summary:

  This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions.

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  Personal subject:

  Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history.

  Personal subject:

  Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production--Methodology.

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