{"product_id":"anecdotal-shakespeare-paul-menzer-9781472576156","title":"Anecdotal Shakespeare: A New Performance History","description":"Shakespeare'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Menzer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1472576152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781472576156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arden Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/22\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Paul Menzer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46431360123135,"sku":"9781472576156","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a6774112-e860-42b5-9dcd-9213422b5406.jpg?v=1735141089","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anecdotal-shakespeare-paul-menzer-9781472576156","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}