title: Shakespeare's Theatre: A Dictionary of his Stage Context (Student Shakespeare Library)
author: Hugh Macrae Richmond
description: A specialized title originally published in hardback is now available in more affordable paperback as part of the Student Shakespeare Library series, which also includes <i>Shakespeare's Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sources</i>. <i>Shakespeare's Theatre</i> offers more than 900 alphabetically arranged entries relevant to the staging of Shakespeare's plays. Entries fall within six broad categories: the physical theater, scripts, characterizations, plot, acting, and drama as art (such as imagery and prose style). Some of the entries merely explain the Elizabethan meanings of a term briefly, but other entries are longer. Additional sources are sometimes mentioned informally in the narrative, and a general bibliography is included in the back along with a list of main entries and a "People, Places, and Play" index. Cross-references are noted throughout the book, and content is supplemented by 32 black-and-white figures. The writing style is accessible, but this is probably of interest only to someone staging an exact reenactment of a Shakespeare play or studying the theater during the Elizabethan period. A less specialized source for putting Shakespeare's works into their historical context through a look at the physical surroundings of Renaissance England is <i>All Things Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's World</i> (Greenwood, 2002). Recommended for large academic research libraries or specialized literary collections. <i>Susan Gardner</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
zlib_text: Avant-Garde Hamlet
  
  Shakespeare and the Stage
  The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Shakespeare and the 
  Stage publishes scholarly works on the theatrical dimensions of the plays of 
  Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Both individual studies and collections 
  of previously unpublished essays are welcome. 
  Series Editors: Peter Kanelos (Valparaiso University, peter.kanelos@valpo.
  edu) and Matthew Kozusko (Ursinus College, mkozusko@ursinus.edu). 
  Publications in Shakespeare and the Stage Series
  R. S. White, Avant-Garde Hamlet: Text, Stage, Screen (2015)
  Kathryn M. Moncrief, Kathryn R. McPherson and Sarah Enloe, Shakespeare 
  Expressed: Page, Stage, and Classroom in Shakespeare and His Contempo-
  raries (2013)
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  Laury Magnus and Walter W. Cannon, Who Hears in Shakespeare?: Shake-
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  Peter Kanelos and Matt Kozusk