Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part I Editing the Stage Directions -- Variable Texts: Stage Directions in Arden 3 Hamlet -- Offstage Noise and Onstage Action: Entrances in the Ophelia Sequence of Hamlet -- Exit by Indirection, Finding Directions Out -- Hamlet's Stage Directions to the Players -- Explicit Stage Directions (Especially Graphics) in Hamlet -- " . . . and Laertes":The Case against Tidiness -- Part II Staging the Stage Directions -- " 'Tis heere. 'Tis gone." The Ghost in the Text -- To Soliloquize or Not to Soliloquize-Hamlet's "To be" Speech in Q1 and Q2/F -- "I there's the point" in Context: Theatricality and Authorship -- The Stage Directions, Overt and Covert, of Hamlet 5.1 -- Part III Envisioning the Stage Directions -- "To See or Not To See": Interpolations, Extended Scenes, and Musical Accompaniment in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet -- Pictures in the Closet: Properties and Stage Business in Hamlet 3.4 -- Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Visual Representations of the Graveyard Scene in Hamlet -- "Pah! Puh!":Hamlet, Yorick, and the Chopless Stage Direction -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index.