{"product_id":"recovering-shakespeares-theatrical-vocabulary-paperback-9780521032414","title":"Recovering Shakespeare's Theatrical Vocabulary (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521032414","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRecovering Shakespeare's Theatrical Vocabulary\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDessen investigates what a playgoer actually saw on stage at the first performance of, for example, Hamlet or Macbeth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlan C. Dessen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521032414, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 23 November 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.5 x 13.7 x 1.8 cm, 0.397 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Recovering Shakespeare's Theatrical Vocabulary is a very strong book....\"    Philip C. McGuire, Shakespeare Quarterly\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this rigorous investigation of the staging of Shakespeare's plays, Alan Dessen wrestles with three linked questions: (1) what did a playgoer at the original production actually see? (2) how can we tell today? and (3) so what? His emphasis is upon images and on-stage effects (e.g. the sick-chair, early entrances, tomb scenes) easily obscured or eclipsed today. Basing his analysis on the 600 English professional plays performed before 1642, Dessen identifies a vocabulary of the theatre shared by Shakespeare, his theatrical colleagues and his playgoers, in which stage directions do not admit of neat dictionary definitions but can be glossed in terms of options and potential meanings. To explore such terms, along with various costumes and properties (keys, trees, coffins, books), is to challenge assumptions that underlie how Shakespeare is read, edited and staged today.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Note on texts and old spelling\u003cbr\u003e 1. The problem, the evidence, and the language barrier\u003cbr\u003e 2. Lost in translation\u003cbr\u003e 3. Interpreting without a dictionary\u003cbr\u003e 4. Juxtapositions\u003cbr\u003e 5. Theatrical italics\u003cbr\u003e 6. Sick chairs and sick thrones\u003cbr\u003e 7. Much virtue in as\u003cbr\u003e 8. The vocabulary of 'place'\u003cbr\u003e 9. 'Romeo opens the tomb'\u003cbr\u003e 10. Vanish and vanishing\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: so what?\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Plays and editions cited\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Shakespeare studies \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Shakespeare studies \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Shakespeare%20studies%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDSGS%5D%22\"\u003eDSGS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004418216216,"sku":"9780521032414","price":29.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521032414i_017ac5ac-10a2-4118-a3cf-0524e79943da.jpg?v=1694965030","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/recovering-shakespeares-theatrical-vocabulary-paperback-9780521032414","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}