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Alan Dessen draws upon stage directions from hundreds of plays (from 1425 to 1642) to investigate what a playgoer may actually have seen when watching the original productions of Hamlet or Macbeth. He argues for the presence of a shared vocabulary among playwrights, players and playgoers.Dessen, Alan C. is the author of 'Recovering Shakespeare's Theatrical Vocabulary', published 1995 under ISBN 9780521470803 and ISBN 0521470803.
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