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- Examines the whole process of theatregoing, performance and audience enjoyment, bringing together the disciplines of Theatre Studies and Shakespeare Studies
Considers a dozen of Shakespeare's major plays in a variety of different ways, presenting the reader with an entirely new view of them and encouraging them to explore further
An easytofollow style makes this book both understandable and enlightening
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Theatrical Events
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Audiences
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Front Matter
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Contexts
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Front Matter
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Plays in Print
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Front Matter
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About this book
Chapters on theatre-going, playscripts, acting, parts to perform, interplay, stage space, off-stage space, and the use of time all bring recent developments in Theatre studies together with Shakespeare Studies. Every aspect of theatre-making comes into view as a dozen major plays are presented in the context for which they were written, making this an adventurous and eminently practical book for all students of Shakespeare.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shakespeare and the Theatrical Event
Authors: John Russell Brown
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-62961-5
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2002
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 237
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave