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This wide and universal theater : Shakespeare in performance, then and now / David Bevington.

By: Bevington, David MPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. Description: xi, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780226044798; 0226044785 (alk. paper)Other title: This wide and universal theatre : Shakespeare in performance, then and nowSubject(s): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production -- MethodologyDDC classification: 792.9/5 LOC classification: PR3091. | B485 2007Online resources: Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
Contents:
1 Actions That a Man Might Play: An Introduction 2 There Lies the Scene: Actors and Theaters in Late Elizabethan England 3 A Local Habitation and a Name: Stage Business in the Comedies 4 Thus Play I in One Person Many People: Performing the Histories 5 Like a Strutting Player: Staging Moral Ambiguity in Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida 6 The Motive and the Cue for Passion: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello in Performance 7 A Poor Player That Struts and Frets His Hour upon the Stage: Role-playing in King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra 8 Insubstantial Pageant: Shakespeare’s Farewell to the Stage 9 This Falls Out Better Than I Could Devise: An Afterword
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This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-230) and index.

1 Actions That a Man Might Play: An Introduction 2 There Lies the Scene: Actors and Theaters in Late Elizabethan England 3 A Local Habitation and a Name: Stage Business in the Comedies 4 Thus Play I in One Person Many People: Performing the Histories 5 Like a Strutting Player: Staging Moral Ambiguity in Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida 6 The Motive and the Cue for Passion: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello in Performance 7 A Poor Player That Struts and Frets His Hour upon the Stage: Role-playing in King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra 8 Insubstantial Pageant: Shakespeare’s Farewell to the Stage 9 This Falls Out Better Than I Could Devise: An Afterword