{"product_id":"9781472576156","title":"Anecdotal Shakespeare : A New Performance History","description":"\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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Arden Shakespeare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52565218853175,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":205.61,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9781472576156-1.jpg?v=1783206685","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9781472576156","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}