Shakespeare's Staged Spaces and Playgoers' Perceptions

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-14

3. Perceptions and Possibility in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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   Pages 15-41

4. Grounded Action and Making Space in Richard II

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   Pages 42-69

5. Narrative and Spatial Movement in Hamlet

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   Pages 70-97

6. Place, Perception, and Disorientation in Macbeth

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   Pages 98-125

7. Direction and Space in The Tempest

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   Pages 126-154

8. Conclusion

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9. Back Matter

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This engaging study offers fresh readings of canonical Shakespeare plays, illuminating ways stagecraft and language of movement create meaning for playgoers. The discussions engage materials from the period, present revelatory readings of Shakespeare's language, and demonstrate how these continually popular texts engage all of us in making meaning.

• Hamlet
• stage
• William Shakespeare
• British and Irish Literature

“Darlene Farabee’s new book contributes to this investigation, considering not only how Shakespeare establishes locations in his plays, but also how his audience perceives the mapping of his stage. … Farabee’s book is clear and engaging, its prose often luminous, and the questions it raises about the disorienting effects of theatrical experience – and the ways Shakespeare reassures or relocates his audience – are intriguing ones.” (Elizabeth Mazzola, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 68 (4), 2015)

• University of South Dakota, USA

  Darlene Farabee

Darlene Farabee is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, USA. She is co-editor (with Mark Netzloff and Bradley D. Ryner) of Early Modern Drama in Performance.

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