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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
List 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 Aman
About the author
Annalisa Castaldo is associate professor of English at Widener University.
Rhonda Knight is professor of English at Coker College.
