The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 29.0283 Wednesday, 22 August 2018
From: Alan Dessen <
Date: August 21, 2018 at 3:16:18 PM EDT
Subject: Announcement: Online Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama, 1580-1642
Shortly after our Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama, 1580-1642 appeared in 1999, I set up a website where Leslie Thomson and I could provide some new entries and make a few corrections. More recently, we have added more than forty of our essays, most of them dealing with theatre history and/or staging. Included are essays on Greene, Marlowe, Edward III, Beaumont and Fletcher, Middleton, Heywood, Ford, and the ubiquitous Anon. A lot of my items are not in scholarly journals but in collections that may not be available in many libraries or in JSTOR and Project MUSE. Also worth noting are Leslie’s important revisiting of the pass over the stage signal and her 2016 in depth treatment of the dumb show.
See the essay section of http://www.sddictionary.com/
A final note: Leslie’s book, Discoveries on the Early Modern Stage: Contexts and Conventions (2018), appears this month from Cambridge U.P.
Alan Dessen