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

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Castaldo, Annalisa, editor.
Knight, Rhonda, 1965- editor.
Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.
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.
Theater--Production and direction--England--History--16th century.
Theater.
Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery--England--History--16th century.
Theaters.
Theater--Production and direction.
Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery.
England.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (209 pages).
Distribution:
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
Place of Publication:
Vancouver [British Columbia] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [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.
Contents:
An introduction and primer to the American Shakespeare Center / by Sarah Enloe
Introduction / by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight
Whose experiment is it anyway? : some models for practice-as-research in Shakespeare studies / by Stephen Purcell
Shakespeare's spirits : staging the supernatural on the early modern stage / by Jim Casey
Staging epilepsy in Othello / by Sid Ray
"Sore hurt and bruised" : visual damage in Othello / by Catherine Loomis
"Heave up!" : the "wicked weight" of Shakespeare's Antony and York's Christ / by R.W. jones
Hiding in plain sight : eavesdropping and the physicality of the stage / by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight
The "dead body problem" : the dramaturgy of coffins on the Renaissance stage / by Sarah Neville
"Cushion come forth" : materializing pregnancy on the Stuart stage / by Sara B.T. Thiel
Maternal revision in Middleton's More dissemblers besides women / by Amanda Zoch
Afterword : the actors speak.
Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1-68393-518-7
1-68393-150-5
OCLC:
1028731736

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