The specific nature of the playhouse conventions which Shakespeare adopted in adjusting his craft to the physical aspects of the theater is explored in this handbook. The book is intended to be used as a supplementary manual in the study of Shakespeare's plays as great literary drama. Topics discussed are entrance announcements, stage business both in the dialogue and in the margins of the basic texts, an intermediate stage level for fast ascents and descents, artful brevity in the monologues, the apostrophe, the third type of aside, stage settings in the dialogue, time signals, and exit cues. An index concludes the book. (JM)