Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521311616
ISBN-13
9780521311618
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 30th, 1986
Print length
204 Pages
Weight
265 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 13.80 x 1.50 cms
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Alan Dessen reconstructs the stage in the Elizabethan era. He believes from stage properties, movements and configurations implicit in recurrent phrases and stage directions, a kind of theatrical shorthand was developed by actors from the playwright. He draws attention to the implications of his findings for modern interpreters, critics, teachers, editors, actors and directors.
Alan Dessen samples about four hundred manuscripts and printed plays to record the original staging conventions of the age of Shakespeare. After studying the stage properties, movements and configurations implicit in recurrent phrases and stage directions, he concludes that Elizabethan spectators, less concerned with realism than later generations, were used to receiving a kind of theatrical shorthand transmitted by the actors from the playwright. Professor Dessen both describes this shorthand (e.g. the use of nightgowns, boots and dishevelled hair) and draws attention to the implications of his findings for modern interpreters, addressing not only critics and teachers but also editors, actors and directors.
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