This study focuses attentionon a vital but neglected aspect of Shakespeare's work as a dramatist: the invention and shaping of scenes. Jones opens with a description of Shakespeare's legendary mastery of scenic organization, and goes on to cover related topics concerning scenes and sequence. Included are the presentation of time (with a critical scrutiny of the "double-time" theory); the use of a two-part structure, with the implications this has for the meaning of the plays; and the ways in which Shakespeare evolves new scenic occasions largely out of his earlier work. The book closes with a detailed examination of four of Shakespeare's tragedies.
- ISBN10 0198120125
- ISBN13 9780198120124
- Publish Date 14 October 1971
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 November 1998
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher Titles Distributed by Oxford University Press (Australia and New Zealand)
- Imprint Titles Distributed by Oxford University Press (Aus
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 280
- Language English