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Author:

Bevington, David M.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

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

Subject:

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

Notes:

This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions. Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-230) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0226044785 (alk. paper)
9780226044781 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006036167

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)