Publisher's Synopsis
This Applause edtiion allows the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly ÊreadingÊ text to the more sensuous more collaborative more malleable ÊperformanceÊ text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Readers and students are faced with real theatrical choices in each speech as the editors point out the challenges and opportunities to the actor and director at each juncture. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare they will be empowered to rehearse and direct their own productions of the imagination in the process.
