Shakespearean Entrances

by Mariko Ichikawa

Shakespearean Entrances offers 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333984064
• ISBN13: 9780333984062
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 9.0"