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'Face to face encounters are the essence of dramatic art. This collection shows us that close reading - knowing the score - is the condition of possibility for theatrical performance. The essays here feature some of the freshest and most original writing on Shakespeare I have seen in a long time.'
Michael D. Bristol, McGill University
Explores the drama of proximity and co-presence in Shakespeare's plays
This book celebrates the theatrical excitement and philosophical meanings of human interaction in Shakespeare. On stage and in life, the face is always window and mirror, representation and presence. A distinguished group of contributors examine the emotional and ethical surplus that appears between faces in the activity and performance of human encounter on stage. By transitioning from face as noun to face as verb - to face, outface, interface, efface, deface, sur-face - chapters reveal how Shakespeare's plays discover conflict, betrayal and deception as well as love, trust and forgiveness between faces and the bodies that bear them.
Matthew J. Smith is Associate Professor of English at Azusa Pacific University.
Julia Reinhard Lupton is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine.
Cover image: Ian McKellen and Judi Dench in Macbeth, at the Other Place, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1976 ©Laurence Burns / ArenaPAL
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List of contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Matthew J. Smith and Julia Reinhard Lupton
I. Foundational Face Work
1. Outface and Interface,
Bruce R. Smith
2. "Everybody's Somebody's Fool":
Folie à Deux in Shakespeare's Love Duets,
Lawrence Manley
3. The Course of Recognition in
Cymbeline, Matthew J. SmithII. Composing Intimacy and Conflict
4. Face to Face, Hand to Hand: Relations of Exchange in
Hamlet, Emily Shortslef
5. Bed Tricks and Fantasies of Facelessness,
Devin Byker III. Facing Judgment
6. The Face of Judgment in
Measure for Measure, Kevin Curran
7. Then Face to Face: Timing Trust in
Macbeth, Jennifer WaldronIV. Moving Pictures
8. The Man of Sorrows: Edgar's Disguise and Dürer's self-portraits,
Hanna Scolnicov9. The Face as Rhetorical Self in Ben Jonson's literature,
Akihiko Shimizu
10. Hamlet's Face,
W. B. Worthen
Afterword: "Theater and Speculation"
William N. West
About the author
Matthew J. Smith is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Azusa Pacific University.Julia Reinhard Lupton is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, as well as Associate Dean for Research at the School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine. Her selected publications include
Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming) and
Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life (University of Chicago Press, 2011). She is also the co-editor, with David Goldstein, of
Shakespeare and Hospitality: Ethics, Politics, and Exchange (Routledge, 2016) and numerous other volumes.
Summary
Face to Face in Shakespearean Drama' celebrates the theatrical excitement and philosophical consequences of human interaction in Shakespeare.
