{"product_id":"stage-matters-props-bodies-and-space-in-shakespearean-performance-9781683931515","title":"Stage Matters: Props, Bodies, and Space in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003ePreface: An Introduction and Primer to the American Shakespeare Center by Sarah Enloe\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Whose Experiment is it Anyway?: Some Models for Practice-as-Research in Shakespeare Studies by Stephen Purcell\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Shakespeare’s Spirits: Staging the Supernatural on the Early Modern Stage by Jim Casey\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Staging Epilepsy in Othello by Sid Ray\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: ’Sore hurt and bruised’: Visual Damage in Othello” by Catherine Loomis\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: ’Heave Up!’: The ‘Wicked Weight’ of Shakespeare’s Antony and York’s Christ” by R. W. Jones\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Hiding in Plain Sight: Eavesdropping and the Physicality of the Stage by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: The ‘Dead Body Problem’: The Dramaturgy of Coffins on the Renaissance Stage by Sarah Neville\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: ’Cushion come forth’: Materializing Pregnancy on the Stuart Stage” by Sara B. T. Thiel\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Maternal Revision in Middleton’s More Dissemblers Besides Women by Amanda Zoch\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: The Actors Speak\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Fairleigh Dickinson University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042118205783,"sku":"9781683931515","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781683931515.jpg?v=1750953069","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stage-matters-props-bodies-and-space-in-shakespearean-performance-9781683931515","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}