... the study of signs provides a vital key in interpreting performance. As performance is, in many genres, a direct reflection of reality it is impossible to separate performance and culture. For example, Shakespeare's London was a direct representation of life in Jacobean/Elizabethan England in terms of the ideology inflicted upon the characters and expressed through the text. Religion formed a central structure and set ... of rules for members of the state to follow, as is reflected throughout much of Shakespeare's work. The downfall of the perturbed son of a "murdered" king is complicat...

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