Shakespeare's Watch: A Guide to Time and Location in the Plays

Buzz Podewell, who is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Tulane University in New Orleans, has directed nearly 200 stage productions of Shakespeare's plays. In Shakespeare's Watch, he describes and explains in detail the “basic questions about the duration and the location of scenes of Shakespeare”. As he shows in his wide‐ranging Introduction, many scholars have dismissed these fundamental questions as irrelevant because they think that an over‐realistic interpretation is unnecessary and would possibly impede the fluid movement of the action. In the early nineteenth century, Charles Lamb famously expressed his preference for reading the plays rather than seeing...