This Applause edtiion allows the reader and student to look beyond the
scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more
malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the
commentary and notes. Readers and students are faced with real
theatrical choices in each speech as the editors point out the
challenges and opportunities to the actor and director at each juncture.
Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare, they will be
empowered to rehearse and direct their own productions of the
imagination in the process.