{"product_id":"anecdotal-shakespeare-a-new-performance-history-9781472576163","title":"Anecdotal Shakespeare: A New Performance History","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paul Menzer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Shakespeare\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","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45082200277143,"sku":"9781472576163","price":12682.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781472576163.webp?v=1767142494","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/anecdotal-shakespeare-a-new-performance-history-9781472576163","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}