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This engaging study offers fresh readings of canonical Shakespeare plays, illuminating ways stagecraft and language of movement create meaning for playgoers. The discussions engage materials from the period, present revelatory readings of Shakespeare's language, and demonstrate how these continually popular texts engage all of us in making meaning.
List of contents
Acknowledgements Note on Texts Introduction 1. Perceptions and Possibility in A Midsummer Night's Dream : 'To leave the figure or disfigure it' 2. Grounded Action and Making Space in Richard II : 'How comest thou hither?' 3. Narrative and Spatial Movement in Hamlet : 'To find his way' 4. Place, Perception, and Disorientation in Macbeth: 'A walking shadow' 5. Direction and Space in The Tempest: 'Through forth-rights and meanders' Conclusion: Movements of Genre and Other Directions: 'As strange a maze' Notes Bibliography Index
About the author
Darlene Farabee is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, USA. She is co-editor (with Mark Netzloff and Bradley D. Ryner) of Early Modern Drama in Performance.
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This engaging study offers fresh readings of canonical Shakespeare plays, illuminating ways stagecraft and language of movement create meaning for playgoers. The discussions engage materials from the period, present revelatory readings of Shakespeare's language, and demonstrate how these continually popular texts engage all of us in making meaning.
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“Darlene Farabee’s new book contributes to this
investigation, considering not only how Shakespeare establishes locations in
his plays, but also how his audience perceives the mapping of his stage. … Farabee’s
book is clear and engaging, its prose often luminous, and the questions it
raises about the disorienting effects of theatrical experience – and the ways
Shakespeare reassures or relocates his audience – are intriguing ones.” (Elizabeth
Mazzola, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 68 (4), 2015)
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"Darlene Farabee's new book contributes to this investigation, considering not only how Shakespeare establishes locations in his plays, but also how his audience perceives the mapping of his stage. ... Farabee's book is clear and engaging, its prose often luminous, and the questions it raises about the disorienting effects of theatrical experience - and the ways Shakespeare reassures or relocates his audience - are intriguing ones." (Elizabeth Mazzola, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 68 (4), 2015)
