Shakespearean Entrances

Ichikawa, M.

Shakespearean Entrances offer a systematic study of entrances and exits on the Shakespearean stage. Elizabethan playwrights and players not only routinely handled these movements but they also used them to bring about various effects. Through analyzing the surviving play-texts, the author attempts to identify the unspoken but standard rules that lay behind the minimal and conventionalized stage directions 'Enter' and 'Exit'/'Exeunt'. The findings provide means by which to recover effects and meanings that the original audience would have appreciated.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2002-10-02

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333984062

DOI: 10.1057/9780230287907

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 198