John Leland, Alan Baragona

Shakespeare's Prop Room

An Inventory

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Produktbeschreibung

This study provides the first comprehensive examination of every prop in Shakespeare's plays, whether mentioned in stage directions, indicated in dialogue or implied by the action. Building on the latest scholarship and offering a witty treatment of the subject, the authors delve into numerous historical documents, the business of theater in Renaissance England, and the plays themselves to explain what audiences might have seen at the Globe, the Rose, the Curtain, or the Blackfriars Playhouse, and why it matters. Students of the plays will be able to read beyond Shakespeare's words and visualize the drama as it might have appeared on the stage. Scholars will find a wealth of previously unmined material for reconstructing Renaissance theatrical practices. School drama groups, amateur theaters and directors and prop masters of professional troupes will find help in mounting their own productions as the Bard's audiences would have seen them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 377g
• ISBN-13: 9781476663364
• ISBN-10: 147666336X
• Artikelnr.: 43545838

Autorenporträt

John Leland has enjoyed teaching Shakespeare to undergraduates for more than thirty years. He lives in Lexington, Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Table of Illustrations Foreword: "Plays and Things" by Ralph Alan Cohen Introduction 1.
Bring out your dead: corpses, funerals and skulls 2.
Off with his head: crowns and the heads that wear them 3.
"Exit pursued by a bear" (The Winter's Tale, 3.3.58): Shakespeare's dramatis animalia 4.
"Come, let's away to prison" (Lear, 5.3.8) 5.
"There's magic in the web of it" (Othello, 3.4.69): handkerchiefs and napkins 6.
"Come on, then, let's to bed" (Romeo and Juliet, 1.5.125) 7.
"The wood began to move" (Macbeth 5.5.34): stage greenery 8.
"Imaginary puissance" (Henry V, Prol. 25): arms and armor 9.
"Welcome to our table" (As You Like It, 2.7.105): tables and chairs 10.
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" (2 Henry VI, 4.2.76): courtrooms and killings 11.
"[O]'er-read these letters / And well consider of them" (2 Henry IV, 3.1.2-3) 12.
"This simulation is not as the former" (Twelfth Night, 2.5.138-39): Simulating Places and People on Stage 13.
"What, a hodge-pudding? A bag of flax?" (Merry Wives of Windsor, 5.5.151) Notes Bibliography Index