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Recovering Shakespeare's Theatrical Vocabulary »

Authors: Alan C. Dessen
ISBN-13: 9780521032414, ISBN-10: 0521032415
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: October 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Dessen investigates what a playgoer actually saw on stage at the first performance of, for example, Hamlet or Macbeth.

	Preface
	Note on texts and old spelling
1	The problem, the evidence, and the language barrier	1
2	Lost in translation	19
3	Interpreting without a dictionary	39
4	Juxtapositions	64
5	Theatrical italics	88
6	Sick chairs and sick thrones	109
7	Much virtue in as	127
8	The vocabulary of "place"	150
9	"Romeo opens the tomb"	176
10	Vanish and vanishing	196
	Conclusion: So what?	216
	Notes	225
	Plays and editions cited	269
	Index	277