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Author
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Date published
2008
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Publisher
Aldershot : Ashgate, c2008.
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Subject
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Accession number
83431055
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Class
Reading Room - 72/SHA/YAC
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ISBN
9780754655855 (hbk.), 0754655857 (hbk.)
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Language
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Physical description
xiii, 210 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
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Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-202) and index. Formatted contents note: Shakespeare and the theatrical performance of rusticity / David Bevington -- Payback time: on the economic rhetoric of revenge in the Merchant of Venice / Linda Woodbridge -- To give and to receive: performing exchanges in the Merchant of Venice / Sean Lawrence / To "gase so much at the fine stranger": Armado and the politics of English in Loves labours lost / Lynne Magnusson -- "Does not the stone rebuke me": the Pauline Rebuke and Paulinas Lawful magic in the Winters tale / Huston Diehl -- Shakespeare and secular performance / Anthony B. Dawson -- Discharging less than the tenth part of one: performance anxiety and in Troilus and Cressida / Gretchen E. Minton -- Forbidden mixtures: Shakespeare in blackface minstrelsy, 1844 / Coppe´lia Kahn -- The tempest and the uses of late Shakespeare in the cultures of performance: Prospero, Gielgud, Rylance / Gordon McMullan. Summary, etc: This collection strives to bring better understanding to Shakespeare's imaginative investment in the relationship between theatrical production and the emotional, intellectual and cultural effects of performance broadly defined in social terms.