Crossbows and Ghosts, Promenades and Gurneys: Shakespeare Onstage in 2007.
| Publisher | Shakespeare Bulletin |
| Publication | Shakespeare Bulletin |
| Subject | Arts, visual and performing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0748-2558 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Published | 2008-03-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Alan C. Dessen |
| Person | Works | William Shakespeare |
Playgoing in 2007 yielded many surprises. I have seen a huge number of Twelfth Night productions, but I do not remember seeing Sir Toby best Sebastian in the 4.1 swordfight as staged at Chichester. In the Chichester Macbeth Banquo's description of "The temple-haunting [marlet]" (1.6.4) was triggered not by a to-be-imagined bird but by a carcass on a platter ready to be carved; for her line "Here I have a pilot's thumb" (1.3.28) the First Witch brandished not a single digit but a severed hand which she dropped in an onstage sink; and at the news of the deaths of his wife and children...
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