Shakespeare, Language And The Stage: The Fifth Wall Only: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Shakespeare and Language Series)

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Shakespeare, Language and the Stage offers fresh ways of thinking about the verbal impact of Shakespeare's language on the stage. Focusing on actual stage performance and exploring the theatrical experience from the actor's gestures and performance, to the direction, and the use of body language, it provides a thorough understanding of how the play performed engages with the issues of language. The contributors examine the importance of language to the performance by asking theatre people: what is it that you do with language that you find the most difficult to explain to others, yet most important to say? Critics are also interviewed about what they find most difficult in terms of language in the theatre.