Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre. Sarah Dustagheer and Gillian Woods, eds. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2019. xvi + 350 pp. £85

• Published in: Renaissance quarterly Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 358 - 360
• Main Author: Connor, Francis X.
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.04.2021
• Subjects: Authorship; Essays; Renaissance period; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Stage direction; Theater

Using an example from the Folio text of The Tempest, they articulate how this brief bit of text exists as a bibliographic object (a word on paper), a theatrical event (dictating the ephemeral action of actors), an interpretive element (readers need to comprehend it), and an authorship problem (who w...