184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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These studies take stage history as a means of knowing the play. Half of the studies deal with casting - doubling, chorus and the crowd, the star of Hamlet and Measure for Measure . Then the transformations of dramatis personae are analyzed and The Tempest is viewed through the changing relationships of Prospero, Ariel and Caliban. Some of Shakespeare’s most original strategies for audience... Read more
Preface 1. Hamlet's Doubles 2. Doubling: Theory and Practice 3. Casting the Chorus 4. Casting the Crowd: Coriolanus in Performance 5. Casting Hamlet: Two Traditions 6. Lear's System and Cordelia's Aside: Leading the Audience 7. Laughter in King Richard II: The Subplot of Mood 8. Metamorphoses of the Audience 9. Dramatis Personae 10. Measure for Measure: Casting the Star 11. Within the Bermuda Triangle: Reflections on Recent Tempests 12. Falstaff's Space: The Tavern as Pastoral
Biography
Ralph Berry
