{"product_id":"anecdotal-shakespeare-a-new-performance-history","title":"Paul Menzer: Anecdotal Shakespeare [2015] paperback","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 Hamlet, superstitions about the name Macbeth, toga troubles in Julius Caesar - 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. Anecdotal Shakespeare provides a history of post-Renaissance Shakespeare and performance, one not based in fact but no less full of truth.","brand":"Menzer, Paul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44538675364130,"sku":"9781472576156","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/menzer-paul-anecdotal-shakespeare-a-new-performance-history-9781472576156-40688147530018.jpg?v=1677448791","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/anecdotal-shakespeare-a-new-performance-history","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}