Shakespeare's Speaking PropertiesBucknell University Press, 1991 - 222 Seiten This book is the first attempt to discuss systematically the properties in Shakespeare's plays, and analyzes the properties that Shakespeare specifies either explicitly in stage directions or implicitly in speeches. Property lists for all of Shakespeare's plays and frequency tables for various categories of property are included. |
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Word Action Object | 15 |
The Good Properties of Bad Quartos | 35 |
Objects Comic and Comedic | 54 |
Spectacle Character Language | 79 |
This Chapter about Spectacle Is Not about Spectacle | 88 |
Object as Actor Caps Crowns and Characters | 121 |
Actor as Object The Petrified Woman | 142 |
Property Lists for Shakespeares Plays | 157 |
Property Categories and Frequency | 195 |
Notes | 198 |
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action actor Antony armor audience audience's Bad Quartos banquet scene becomes Caesar casket character character's Cleopatra Cloten's colors comic Coriolanus corpse costume critics crown death Desdemona discussion dramatic effigy erty example Falstaff's feast flesh-stone metaphor FOLIO QUARTO A-S-L folio text function guests Guiderius Hamlet handkerchief head headgear Henry Henry IV Henry VI Hermione history plays imagery Juliet KIND FOLIO QUARTO king King Lear laughter Lear letter lines Love's Labor's Lost Macbeth masque meaning metonymic nature object occur offstage onstage Osric Othello performance play's playwright Portia's QUARTO A-S-L PROPERTY quarto and folio quarto text Renaissance Richard Richard III ring role Shakespeare's Shakespeare's comedies Shakespeare's plays signal skull social specifies spectacle spectacular scenes speech stage direction statue stone suggest supernatural sword symbolic tetralogy textual theatrical Timon of Athens tion Titus Andronicus tokens of identity torches tragedies Twelfth Night understand verbal violence visual weapons wear