Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - CHAP T2 - Moncrief, Shakespeare Expressed: Page, Stage, and Classroom in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries SP - 123-33 ID - bbbc2009 T1 - "Shticky Shakespeare: Exploring Action as Eloquence" AU - Ray, Sid PY - 2013 DA - 2013 LA - English AB - Uses examples from performances of Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Richard III, Winter's Tale and As You Like It to examine the "efficacy of Shakespearean 'stage business'" and when it becomes "shtick." Concludes "that a little bit of stage business can intensify the meaning of the text and the affect of the moment" while going too far can ruin the effect. ER -