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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Cranbury
This book collects essays by actors, directors, scholars, and teachers who are exploring the ways in which the plays of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries were-and still are-performed. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword --...
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This book collects essays by actors, directors, scholars, and teachers who are exploring the ways in which the plays of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries were-and still are-performed. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- P A R T I. "EDIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR" -- Ch01. "Now this is where you can bring in Cleopatra's horse" -- Ch02. Patient Auditor to Gentle Reader -- Ch03. "Why do you thus exclaim?" -- P A R T I I. "I MUST BEAR A PART" -- Ch04. Why Are Shakespeare's Characters So Relatable? -- Ch05. "Anatomiz[ing] Regan" Performing Parts in King Lear -- Ch06. A Piece of Cake, a Bit of Dance, and a Fat Suit on Its Knees -- Ch07. Isabella in Measure for Measure -- Ch08. "You that way, we this way" -- Ch09. Moll's Queer Anatomy -- Ch10. Imaginative Bodies and Bodies Imagined -- P A R T I I I. "DEVIL IN A BEAR'S DOUBLET" -- Ch11. The Thundering Audience of King Lear -- Ch12. "Off with his head! . . . so much for Hewlett/Brown" -- Ch13. To "make the unskillful laugh" -- Ch14. "And are by child with me" -- Ch15. "Your majesty came not like yourself" -- Ch16. Bringing Justice to Bear -- P A R T I V. "DISSEMBLING CUB[S]" -- Ch17. Doubling in The Comedy of Errors -- Ch18. Scare Bear -- Ch19. "Pardon, gentles all" -- Ch20. Craving the Law in The Merchant of Venice -- P A R T V. "BEAR THE VERSES" -- Ch21. Refiguring Richard -- Ch22. "Ah, poor our sex! This fault in us I find" -- Ch23. Shakespeare and the History of the Bookish -- Index -- About the Contributors.
