Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Language
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Language
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Basic Elements
- Part II Shaping Contexts
- Part III New Technologies
- Part IV Contemporary Sites for Language Change
- 12 Writing for Actors: Language that Cues Performance
- 13 Language and Translation
- 14 Popular Culture and Shakespeare’s Language
- Appendix Glossary of Rhetorical Figures
- Further Reading
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to…
12 - Writing for Actors: Language that Cues Performance
from Part IV - Contemporary Sites for Language Change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2019
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Language
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Language
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Basic Elements
- Part II Shaping Contexts
- Part III New Technologies
- Part IV Contemporary Sites for Language Change
- 12 Writing for Actors: Language that Cues Performance
- 13 Language and Translation
- 14 Popular Culture and Shakespeare’s Language
- Appendix Glossary of Rhetorical Figures
- Further Reading
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to…
Summary
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, does it. Likewise, Peter Quince, carpenter of Athens. They write for actors. And writing for actors, they tell us something about how the playwright who’s written them writes for actors.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language , pp. 207 - 225Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019