The Arts of performance in Elizabethan and early Stuart drama : essays for G.K. Hunter / edited by Murray Biggs
1991, First Edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #379647
ISBN: 0748602666
Physical description: v, 227 pages ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-217) and index. Contents: George Hunter: a personal memoir / Claude Rawson -- The performance of Shakespeare's sonnets / Philip Edwards -- 'Soft, here follows prose'. Shakespeare's stage documents / Jonas Barish -- Staging Shakespeare's ghosts / Stanley Wells -- King John, Henry VIII, and the arts of performing Shakespeare's history plays / Eugene M. Waith -- Some Shakespearean openings: Hamlet, Twelfth night, The tempest / A.D. Nuttall -- Performing at the frontiers of representation: epilogue and post-scriptural future in Shakespeare's plays / Robert Weimann -- Seeing and believing / Lois Potter -- Coriolanus and the playgoer in 1609 / Marion Trousdale.
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