Bit Parts in Shakespeare's Plays
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- Author: Molly Mahood
- Date Published: January 1993
- availability: Unavailable - out of print April 1999
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521416122
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Molly Mahood has written a wholly original survey of the small supporting roles which abound in Shakespeare's plays. The practice of doubling enabled Elizabethan dramatists to surround their principal characters with a host of lesser Lords, Soldiers, Messengers and Servants. Professor Mahood explores the different purposes served by such minimal characters, from clearing the stage to epitomising the overall effect of a comedy or tragedy. Each of the subsequent chapters is devoted to the entire corpus of minimal roles in a single play, ranging from the early Richard III to The Tempest.
Read more- This is a new subject by a renowned, senior Shakespeare scholar
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'This is a wittily written, elegantly thought out, wonderfully original work that abounds in new ideas. It will be rewarding to all readers and actors of Shakespeare, first for its multitude of details about bit parts, and secondly for the rich possibilities for performance that the author uncovers.' Andrew Gurr
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- Date Published: January 1993
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521416122
- length: 262 pages
- dimensions: 237 x 157 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.487kg
- availability: Unavailable - out of print April 1999
Table of Contents
1. Entities and nonentities
2. Transposer
3. Supporters
4. Stress and counterstress
5. Shadow and substance in Richard the Third
6. Friends of Brutus
7. Measure for Measure, or the Way of the World
8. Service and servility in King Lear
9. The varying tide in Antony and Cleopatra
10. The Tempest from the forecastle
Notes
Index of characters
General index.
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