TY - BOOK AU - Menzer,Paul TI - Anecdotal Shakespeare: a new performance history T2 - The arden Shakespeare SN - 9781472576187 AV - PR3091 U1 - 792.95822.33 23 PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc KW - Shakespeare, William, KW - Shakespearean actors and actresses KW - Anecdotes KW - Acting KW - Art dramatique KW - Shakespeare studies & criticism KW - bicssc KW - DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Anecdotal Shakespeare -- Tarlton's head -- Guildenstern's bassoon -- Shylock's son -- Richard's will -- 1 Hamlet: Skulls are good to think with -- Yorick's skulls -- Skull caps -- Like father, like son -- Ghost walkers -- 2 Othello: The smudge -- Pillow talk -- Desdemona's beard -- Another man -- The impossible fix -- One moor -- 3 Romeo and Juliet: Central casting -- Be some other name -- Old Montague -- Young Capulet -- Something old, something new . . . -- Romeo must die -- Unromantic altitudes -- Duck! -- 4 Richard III: Oedipus text -- Olivier's Dick -- Richard's whose self again? -- Heart-throbs and hamstrings -- Booth's trunk -- 5 Macbeth: An embarrassment of witches -- The unfortunate comedy -- Of curses and kilts -- Tangible properties -- Crude mechanicals -- Stage frights -- Exeunt, cursing N2 - Shakespeare's four-hundred-year performance history is full of anecdotes ribald, trivial, frequently funny, sometimes disturbing, and always but loosely allegiant to fact. Such anecdotes are nevertheless a vital index to the ways that Shakespeare's plays have generated meaning across varied times and in varied places. Furthermore, particular plays have produced particular anecdotes stories of a real skull in Hamlet, superstitions about the name Macbeth, toga troubles in Julius Caesar and therefore express something embedded in the plays they attend. Anecdotes constitute then not just a vital component of a play's performance history but a form of vernacular criticism by the personnel most intimately involved in their production: actors. These anecdotes are therefore every bit as responsive to and expressive of a play's meanings across time as the equally rich history of Shakespearean criticism or indeed the very performances these anecdotes treat. Anecdotal Shakespeare provides a history of post-Renaissance Shakespeare and performance, one not based in fact but no less full of truth UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1004946 ER -