Shakespeare's Speaking PropertiesBucknell University Press, 1991 - 222 pages This book is the first attempt to discuss systematically the properties in Shakespeare's plays, and analyzes the properties that Shakespeare specifies either explicitly in stage directions or implicitly in speeches. Property lists for all of Shakespeare's plays and frequency tables for various categories of property are included. |
Contents
Preface | 9 |
The Good Properties of Bad Quartos | 35 |
Objects Comic and Comedic | 54 |
Copyright | |
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action Antony armor audience's banquet scene becomes Caesar casket character character's Cleopatra Cloten's colors comic Coriolanus corpse costume critics crown death Desdemona discussion dramatic effigy erty example Falstaff's feast flesh-stone metaphor FOLIO QUARTO A-S-L folio text function guests Guiderius Hamlet handkerchief head headgear Henry Henry IV Henry VI Hermione history plays imagery Juliet Julius Caesar KIND FOLIO QUARTO king King Lear laughter Lear letter lines Love's Labor's Lost Macbeth masque meaning metonymic nature object occur offstage onstage Osric Othello performance play's playwright Portia's QUARTO A-S-L PROPERTY quarto and folio quarto text Renaissance Richard Richard III ring role Shakespeare's Shakespeare's comedies Shakespeare's plays signal skull social specify spectacle spectacular scenes speech stage direction statue stone suggest supernatural sword symbolic tetralogy textual theater theatrical Timon of Athens tion Titus Andronicus token of identity torches tragedies Twelfth Night understand verbal violence visual weapons wear