目录 List of figures and tables Preface Chapter 1 Character Juliet's balcony, Verona Shakespeare's realism? Shakespeare's 'unreal' characters Reading Shakespeare's characters on the page Embodying Shakespeare's characters on stage Doubling on the early modern stage Writing for particular actors Falstaff:character as individual or type? Naming and individuality Characters as individuals or as inter-relationships Character:interior or exterior? Character:where next? Chapter 2 Performance Measure for Measure. staging silence ‘Going back to the text’:the challenge of performance Performance interpretations:The Taming of the Shrew Topical performance:the plays in different theatrical contexts Citing performances Using film Using film comparatively:Macbeth Hamlet:‘To be or not to be’ Adaptations:Shakespearean enough? Performance:where next? Chapter 3 Texts Shakespeare's hand So what did Shakespeare write? Stage to page Quartos and Folio Editing as interpretation The job of the editor:the example of Richard Ⅱ Stage directions Speech prefixes The job of the editor:the example of KingLear Texts:where next? Chapter 4 Language ‘In a double sense’(Macbeth 5.7.50) Did anyone really talk like that? Playing with language Language of the play/language of the person Prose and verse Linguistic shifts:i Henry Ⅳ Shakespeare's verse Linguistic variation:A Midsummer Night's Dream Language:where next? Chapter 5 Structure Finding the heart of the play Shakespeare's genres:dynamic, not static Tragedy and comedy Tragedy-expanding the genre Comedy-expanding the genre History:is this a fixed genre? Structuring scenes:Much Ado About Nothing Juxtaposing scenes, activating ironies:Henry V Showing v. telling Structure:where next? Chapter 6 Sources Antony and Cleopatra and Plutarch Originality:was Shakespeare a plagiarist? Shakespeare at work:the intentional fallacy? The source bites back:Romeo and Juliet and The Winter's Tale The strong poet? King Lear Sources:where next? Chapter 7 History Politic picklocks:interpreting topically History plays:political Shakespeare? History plays:Shakespeare as propagandist? Hamlet as history play? Jacobean patronage:King Lear and Macbeth Historical specificity:gender roles Race and Othello History:where next? Bibliography Index
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