Stage Matters: Props, Bodies, and Space in Shakespearean Performance

Author:   Annalisa Castaldo ,  Rhonda Knight ,  Jim Casey ,  Sarah Enloe
Publisher:   Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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9781683931492


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   01 April 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Stage Matters: Props, Bodies, and Space in Shakespearean Performance


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The collection, edited by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight, features essays by scholars interested in exploring how the material culture of sixteenth and early seventeenth English theatrical culture influenced the creation and presentation of drama and how understanding this culture can enrich scholars’ current interactions with these plays as well as offer insights to actors and directors. The essays include discussions of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Middleton as well as lesser known works and playwrights. This collection is unique in that it includes the body of the actor as a material object that is encountered and manipulated by other actors on the stage. These essays demonstrate how props, bodies and the architectural dimensions of early modern stages have both practical and symbolic registers.

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Author:   Annalisa Castaldo ,  Rhonda Knight ,  Jim Casey ,  Sarah Enloe
Publisher:   Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Imprint:   Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9781683931492


ISBN 10:   1683931491
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   01 April 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Preface: An Introduction and Primer to the American Shakespeare Center by Sarah Enloe Introduction by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight Chapter 1: Whose Experiment is it Anyway?: Some Models for Practice-as-Research in Shakespeare Studies by Stephen Purcell Chapter 2: Shakespeare’s Spirits: Staging the Supernatural on the Early Modern Stage by Jim Casey Chapter 3: Staging Epilepsy in Othello by Sid Ray Chapter 4: ’Sore hurt and bruised’: Visual Damage in Othello” by Catherine Loomis Chapter 5: ’Heave Up!’: The ‘Wicked Weight’ of Shakespeare’s Antony and York’s Christ” by R. W. Jones Chapter 6: Hiding in Plain Sight: Eavesdropping and the Physicality of the Stage by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight Chapter 6: The ‘Dead Body Problem’: The Dramaturgy of Coffins on the Renaissance Stage by Sarah Neville Chapter 7: ’Cushion come forth’: Materializing Pregnancy on the Stuart Stage” by Sara B. T. Thiel Chapter 8: Maternal Revision in Middleton’s More Dissemblers Besides Women by Amanda Zoch Afterword: The Actors Speak About the Contributors Index

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Annalisa Castaldo is associate professor of English at Widener University. Rhonda Knight is professor of English at Coker College.

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