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Anecdotal Shakespeare

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Anecdotal Shakespeare

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Shakespeare's four-hundred-year performance history is full of anecdotes - 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 - stories of a real skull in Hamlet, superstitions about the name Macbeth, toga troubles in Julius Caesar - 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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
280
Release Date:
2015-10-22
Publication Date:
2015-10-22
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1472576160
ISBN13:
9781472576163
Weight:
395 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
209 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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