Stage Directions in Hamlet: New Essays and New DirectionsHardin L. Aasand The subject of stage directions in 'Hamlet', those brief semiotic codes that are embellished by historical, theatrical, and cultural considerations, produces a rigorous examination in the fifteen essays contained in this collection. This volume encompasses essays that are guardedly inductive in their critical approaches, as well as those that critique modern productions that attempt to achieve Shakespearean effect through a modern aesthetic. The volume also includes essays that enunciate the production of stage business as a cultural interplay between productions and social agencies outside the theater. |
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Introduction | 9 |
Stage Directions in Arden 3 Hamlet | 19 |
Entrances in the Ophelia | 33 |
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