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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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Group Author: Castaldo, Annalisa (Editor); Knight, Rhonda, 1965- (Editor)
Published: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
Publisher Address: Vancouver [British Columbia] :
Publication Dates: [2018]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Shakespeare and the stage
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Stage history > To 1625.
Theaters > Stage-setting and scenery > England > History > 16th century.
Theater > Production and direction > England > History > 16th century.
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"--
Carrier Form: xvi, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781683931492 (hardback) :
1683931491 (hardback)
Index Number: PR3095
CLC: J809.561
Call Number: J809.561/S779-2
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.

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