Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Note on Texts Introduction 1. Perceptions and Possibility in A Midsummer Night's Dream : 'To leave the figure or disfigure it' 2. Grounded Action and Making Space in Richard II : 'How comest thou hither?' 3. Narrative and Spatial Movement in Hamlet : 'To find his way' 4. Place, Perception, and Disorientation in Macbeth: 'A walking shadow' 5. Direction and Space in The Tempest: 'Through forth-rights and meanders' Conclusion: Movements of Genre and Other Directions: 'As strange a maze' Notes Bibliography Index

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Darlene Farabee is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, USA. She is co-editor (with Mark Netzloff and Bradley D. Ryner) of Early Modern Drama in Performance.

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“Darlene Farabee’s new book contributes to this investigation, considering not only how Shakespeare establishes locations in his plays, but also how his audience perceives the mapping of his stage. … Farabee’s book is clear and engaging, its prose often luminous, and the questions it raises about the disorienting effects of theatrical experience – and the ways Shakespeare reassures or relocates his audience – are intriguing ones.” (Elizabeth Mazzola, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 68 (4), 2015)