"Off-Stage"
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Author:
	Womack, Peter.
Type:
	Book Chapter
Year:
	2013
Publication Information:
	Turner, Early Modern Theatricality, 71–92.
:
	Turner, Early Modern Theatricality
Annotation:
	Analyzes early modern theatrical spaces by considering how the stage itself is shaped and transformed by characters exiting and entering as well as spatial configurations and off-stage effects. Uses Richard III to explore stage space as a "threshold," arguing that in Act 3, the stage space is representative of an intersection rather a specific place and "the off-stage space is where [characters] go to die." Also examines staged interior spaces in Arden of Faversham, arguing that "the stage in Arden is linked with these sites not by a fixed logic of denotation but by a functional analogy." Suggests that the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet explores gendered issues of interiority and exteriority as Juliet remains within, Romeo wanders outside, and the two meet in the transitional space in the middle.
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Turner, Henry S.
Tags:
	Apocrypha, Arden of Faversham, Richard III, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Spring 2015
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc1924