عنوان

Recovering Shakespeare's theatrical vocabulary /

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0521470803

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9780521470803

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b794952

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Recovering Shakespeare's theatrical vocabulary /

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Alan C. Dessen.

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New York :

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Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1995.

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xiii, 283 pages ;

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23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-268) and index.

Text of Note

The problem, the evidence, and the language barrier -- Lost in translation -- Interpreting without a dictionary -- Juxtapositions -- Theatrical italics -- Sick chairs and sick thrones -- Much virtue in as -- The vocabulary of 'place' -- 'Romeo opens the tomb' -- Vanish and vanishing -- Conclusion: so what?

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Text of Note

In this rigorous investigation of the staging of Shakespeare's plays, Alan Dessen wrestlers with three linked questions: (1) what did a playgoer at the original production actually see? (2) how can we tell today? and (3) so what? His emphasis is upon images and onstage effects (e.g. the sick-chair, early entrances, tomb scenes) easily obscured or eclipsed today. The basis of his analysis is his survey of the stage directions in the approximately 600 English professional plays performed before 1642. From such widely scattered bits of evidence emerges a vocabulary of the theatre shared by Shakespeare, his theatrical colleagues, and his playgoers, in which the terms (e.g. vanish, as in ..., as from ..., "Romeo opens the tomb") often do not admit of neat dictionary definitions but can be glossed in terms of options and potential meanings.

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To explore such terms, along with various costumes and properties (keys, trees, coffins, books), is to challenge unexamined assumptions that underlie how Shakespeare is read, edited, and staged today.

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

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

Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Mise en scène.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Shakespeare, William,1564-1616

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

Shakespeare, William.

Drama-- Technique, Terminology.

English language-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- Semantics.

Stage directions-- History.

Theater-- Production and direction-- England, Terminology.

English language-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- Semantics.

Drama-- Technique-- Terminology.

Stage directions-- History.

Anglais (Langue)-- 1500-1700 (Moderne)-- Sémantique.

Indications scéniques-- Histoire.

Théâtre (Genre littéraire)-- Technique-- Terminologie.

Théâtre-- Production et mise en scène-- Angleterre-- Terminologie.

Bühnenanweisung

Bühnentechnik

Drama

Drama-- Technique, Terminology.

Drama-- Technique.

Engels.

English language-- 1500-1700, Early modern.

English language-- Early modern-- Semantics.

Geschichte 1590-1620.

Regie.

Stage directions-- History.

Stage directions.

Terminologie.

Theater-- Great Britain-- Production and direction, Terminology.

Theater-- Production and direction.

Theater.

Toneelstukken.

England.

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Dessen, Alan C.,1935-

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20201207080141.0

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