Shakespeare's use of location governs his dramas. Some he was personally familiar with, like Windsor; some he knew through his imagination, like Kronborg Castle ('Elsinore'); some matter because Shakespeare's plays were performed there, like Hampton Court and the Great Hall of the Middle Temple. Shakespeare's plays are powerfully shaped by their sense of place, and the location becomes an unacknowledged actor. This book is about the locations that he used for his plays, each of which the author has visited, and the result presents the reader with a sense of those places that Shakespeare knew either through direct personal contact or through his imaginative re-interpretation of the scene.
| ISBN: | 9781783168088 |
| Publication date: | 15th March 2016 |
| Author: | Ralph Berry |
| Publisher: | University of Wales Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 101 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: plays and playwrights |
Shakespeare's use of location governs his dramas. Some he was personally familiar with, like Windsor; some he knew through his imagination, like Kronborg Castle ('Elsinore'); some matter because Shakespeare's plays were performed there, like Hampton Court and the Great Hall of the Middle Temple. Shakespeare's plays are powerfully shaped by their sense of place, and the location becomes an unacknowledged actor. This book is about the locations that he used for his plays, each of which the author has visited, and the result presents the reader with a sense of those places that Shakespeare knew either through direct personal contact or through his imaginative re-interpretation of the scene.
Shakespeare's Settings features in the following genres: Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Shakespeare's Settings is available in Paperback
Shakespeare's Settings was written by Ralph Berry and published by University of Wales Press
Shakespeare's Settings has 101 pages
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