{"product_id":"anecdotal-shakespeare-a-new-performance-history-paperback","title":"Anecdotal Shakespeare: A New Performance History - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Menzer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShakespeare's four-hundred-year performance history is full of anecdotes - ribald, trivial, frequently funny, sometimes disturbing, and always but loosely allegiant to fact. Such anecdotes are nevertheless a vital index to the ways that Shakespeare's plays have generated meaning across varied times and in varied places. Furthermore, particular plays have produced particular anecdotes - stories of a real skull in \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, superstitions about the name \u003ci\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/i\u003e, toga troubles in \u003ci\u003eJulius Caesar\u003c\/i\u003e - and therefore express something embedded in the plays they attend. Anecdotes constitute then not just a vital component of a play's performance history but a form of vernacular criticism by the personnel most intimately involved in their production: actors. These anecdotes are therefore every bit as responsive to and expressive of a play's meanings across time as the equally rich history of Shakespearean criticism or indeed the very performances these anecdotes treat. \u003ci\u003eAnecdotal Shakespeare \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a history of post-Renaissance Shakespeare and performance, one not based in fact but no less full of truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Menzer\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor and Director of the Mary Baldwin College Shakespeare and Performance programme, Mary Baldwin College, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 22, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52704277201203,"sku":"9781472576156","price":75.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Y4r8YVUssX9781472576156.webp?v=1763351729","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/anecdotal-shakespeare-a-new-performance-history-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}