Shakespeare's Double Plays: Dramatic Economy on the Early Modern Stage
- ISBN-10
- 1108417434
- ISBN-13
- 9781108417433
- Category
- Drama
- Pages
- 291
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-05-03
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Brett Gamboa
Description
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. 'Improbable fictions: Shakespeare's plays without the plays; 2. Versatility and verisimilitude on sixteenth-century stages; 3. Doubling in The Winter's Tale; 4. Dramaturgical directives and Shakespeare's cast size; 5. Doubling in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet; 6. Where the boys aren't; 7. Doubling in Twelfth Night and Othello; Epilogue: Ragozine and Shakespearean substitution; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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