Shakespeare's Staged Spaces and Playgoers' Perceptions [Paperback]

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.Acknowledgements Note on Texts Introduction 1. Perceptions and Possibility in A Midsummer Night's Dream : 'To leave the figure or disfigure it' 2. Grounded Action and Making Space in Richard II : 'How comest thou hither?' 3. Narrative and Spatial Movement in Hamlet : 'To find his way' 4. Place, Perception, and Disorientation in Macbeth: 'A walking shadow' 5. Direction and Space in The Tempest: 'Through forth-rights and meanders' Conclusion: Movements of Genre and Other Directions: 'As strange a maze' Notes Bibliography Index

Darlene Farabees new book contributes to thisinvestigation, considering not only how Shakespeare establishes locations inhis plays, but also how his audience perceives the mapping of his stage. & Farabeesbook is clear and engaging, its prose often luminous, and the questions itraises about the disorienting effects of theatrical experience  and the waysShakespeare reassures or relocates his audience  are intriguing ones. (ElizabethMazzola, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 68 (4), 2015)

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.