Stage matters props, bodies, and space in Shakespearean performance

"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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Castaldo, Annalisa (HerausgeberIn), Knight, Rhonda (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Vancouver, Madison, Teaneck, Wroxton Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2018
Schriftenreihe:Shakespeare and the stage
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
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
Beschreibung:xvi, 192 Seiten
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23 cm
ISBN:9781683931492
978-1-68393-149-2