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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Butler, Colin. Practical Shakespeare. Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2005 (OCoLC)607623563 Online version: Butler, Colin. Practical Shakespeare. Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2005 (OCoLC)632211114 |
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Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Colin Butler |
ISBN: | 0821416219 9780821416211 0821416227 9780821416228 |
OCLC Number: | 57392587 |
Description: | viii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | First steps -- Entrances and early words -- Exits -- Characterization -- Scenes not shown -- Controlling the audience's responses (I) -- Controlling the audience's responses (II) -- Untruthful behavior -- Staging decisive moments -- Prologues and choruses. |
Responsibility: | Colin Butler. |
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A comprehensive treatment of Shakespeare's plays, The Practical Shakespeare: The Plays in Practice and on the Page illuminates for a general audience how and why the plays work so well.Noting
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"A resource for high school teachers and their advanced students, for undergraduate faculty and their students in survey courses that include some of the Bard's plays, and for the occasional theatergoer. The Practical Shakespeare is highly readable, informative, and thought-provoking." -- Ronald Salomone * coeditor of Teaching Shakespeare into the Twenty-first Century * Read more...
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