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Stage directions in Hamlet : new essays and new directions

Stage directions in "Hamlet",, those brief semiotic codes that are embellished by historical, theatrical and cultural considerations are the subject of these essays. Some are guardedly inductive in their critical approaches, while some critique modern productions that attempt to achieve Shakespearean effect through a modern aesthetic.
Print Book, English, ©2003
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison [N.J.], ©2003
Aufsatzsammlung
234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780838639467, 0838639461
49942402
Variable texts: stage directions in Arden 3 Hamlet / Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor
Offstage noise and onstage action: entrances in the Ophelia sequence of Hamlet / June Schlueter and James P. Lusardi
Exit by indirection, finding directions out / George Walton Williams
Hamlet's stage directions to the players / James Hirsh
Explicit stage directions (especially graphics) in Hamlet / Bernice W. Kliman
" ... and Laertes": the case against tidiness / Pamela Mason
"'Tis heere. 'Tis gone." The ghost in the text / David G. Brailow
To soliloquize or not to soliloquize
Hamlet's "To be" speech in Q1 and Q2/F / Edna Zwick Boris
"I there's the point" in context: theatricality and authorship / Steven Urkowitz
The stage directions, overt and covert, of Hamlet 5.1 / John C. Meagher
"To see or not to see": interpolations, extended scenes, and musical accompaniment in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet / Iska Alter
Pictures in the closet: properties and stage business in Hamlet 3.4 / Frank Nicholas Clary
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century visual representations of the graveyard scene in Hamlet / Alan R. Young
"Pah! Puh!": Hamlet, Yorick, and the chopless stage direction / Hardin L. Aasand