Free Download Paul Menzer, "Anecdotal Shakespeare: A New Performance History"
English | ISBN: 1472576160 | 2015 | 280 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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