caa a22 4500 388109645 CHVBK 20180307125349.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S030788330002023X doi S030788330002023X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S030788330002023X Fitzpatrick Tim Tim Fitzpatrick teaches at the Centre for Performance Studies, University of Sydney Stage Management, Dramaturgy and Spatial Semiotics in Shakespeare's Dialogue [Elektronische Daten] [Tim Fitzpatrick] This article examines the ramifications of the hypothesis that encoded in the dialogue of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre texts are precise indications for the actors as to then-entrance and exit points, and that such indications constitute a stage management system, a dramaturgical system and a system of spatial semiotics which might invest these movement patterns with thematic or semiotic significance. Such a suggestion, that we may be able to access a range of ‘spatial' meanings from an understanding of original performance conditions, is likely to be viewed with some scepticism by Shakespearian scholars of a literary orientation, so strong is the word-based tradition of analysis and interpretation. Yet this is the suggestion that underlies this work: that, complementing the verbal signification of the texts there may also be a verbally inscribed spatial semiotic which provides an additional range of meanings—and that such possible semiotic functions ride upon pragmatic stage management patterns which governed entrances and exits and the rhythms of the original performance context. It is argued that when the texts are interrogated in this light they reveal precise, consistent and coherent traces of such systematic indications in regard to the onstage-offstage spatial relationships operating in performance. Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1999 Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 24/1(1999), 1-23 0307-8833 24:1<1 1999 24 TRI https://doi.org/10.1017/S030788330002023X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S030788330002023X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Fitzpatrick Tim Tim Fitzpatrick teaches at the Centre for Performance Studies, University of Sydney NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 24/1(1999), 1-23 0307-8833 24:1<1 1999 24 TRI CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge