Playwright, Space and Place in Early Modern Performance: Shakespeare and Company

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Part 1: Onstage and Offstage Resources in Early Modern Performance......Page 22
Playwrights Thinking Spatially......Page 24
What Playwrights Expected Onstage......Page 42
Bringing the Tiring House into Play......Page 78
Part 2: Establishing a Sense of Place and Fictional World......Page 100
Nominating the Place......Page 102
Bringing Properties and Place Onstage......Page 118
The Divided Stage: Observers and Discoveries......Page 138
Stage Doors as Opposed Signifiers......Page 158
Part 3: A Spatially-based Stage-management and Meaning-making System......Page 188
Stage Doors and Stage Management......Page 190
Stage Directions and Stage Management......Page 212
Stage Doors and Ramifications......Page 230
Space, Place and Meanings......Page 250
Appendix 1......Page 262
Appendix 2......Page 304
Works Cited......Page 310
Index......Page 316