Stage matters : props, bodies, and space in Shakespearean performance / edited by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Castaldo, Annalisa, editor.

Knight, Rhonda, 1965- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Shakespeare and the stage (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press)

Shakespeare and the stage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--To 1625.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Theaters--England--Dramatic production--History--16th century.

Theaters.

Theater--Production and direction.

History.

England.

Theater--Production and direction--England--History--16th century.

Theater.

Physical Description:

xvi, 192 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver [British Columbia] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]

Summary:

"This collection features nine essays that explore how the material conditions of the early modern English stage shaped the theater. Topics range from the simulation of pregnant bodies by boy actors (and the effects of those simulations) to how bruises created by make-up might have been used on stage"-- Provided by publisher.

This collection features nine essays that explore how the material conditions of the early modern English stage shaped the theater. Topics range from the simulation of pregnant bodies by boy actors (and the effects of those simulations) to how bruises created by make-up might have been used on stage.

Contents:

The American Shakespeare Center : a brief introduction and primer / Sarah Enloe

Introduction / Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight

Whose experiment is it, anyway? : some models for practice-as-research in Shakespeare studies / Stephen Purcell

Shakespeare's spirits : staging the supernatural on the early modern stage / Jim Casey

Staging epilepsy in Othello / Sid Ray

"Sore hurt and bruised" : visual damage in Othello / Catherine Loomis

"Heave up!" : the "wicked weight" of Shakespeare's Antony and York's Christ / R.W. Jones

Hiding in plain sight : eavesdropping and the physicality of the stage / Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight

The "dead body problem" : the dramaturgy of coffins on the Renaissance stage / Sarah Neville

"Cushion come forth" : materializing pregnancy on the Stuart stage / Sara B.T. Thiel

Maternal revision in Middleton's More dissemblers besides women / Amanda Zoch

Afterword : the actors speak.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Stage matters

ISBN:

9781683931492

1683931491

OCLC:

1014064360