Shaping Shakespeare for Performance

The Bear Stage
Herausgeber: Loomis, Catherine; Ray, Sid

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Shakespeare and the Stage
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781611477849
• ISBN-10: 1611477840
• Artikelnr.: 42992600

Autorenporträt

Edited by Catherine Loomis and Sid Ray - Contributions by Alan Armstrong; Sybille Bruun; Annalisa Castaldo; Heidi Cephus; Christopher Clary; Peter Hyland; Peter Kanelos; James Keegan; Matt Kozusko; Russ McDonald; Ann Pleiss Morris; Cass Morris; Fiona Harr

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Dedication Foreword Ralph Alan Cohen The Bear Stage
Catherine Loomis and Sid Ray Part I "Edit, pursued by a bear": Essays on
Editing Shakespeare for the Stage and the Page 1 "Now this is where you can
bring in Cleopatra's horse": Editing Shakespeare for the Stage Ann Thompson
2 Patient Auditor to Gentle Reader: Transforming the Introduction from
Playhouse to Print House Ann Pleiss Morris 3 "Why do you thus exclaim?":
Emotionally Inflected Punctuation in Editorial Practice and in Performance
Cass Morris Part II: "I must bear a part": Essays on Analyzing and Playing
Character 4 Why Are Shakespeare's Characters So Relatable? Matt Kozusko 5
Anatomiz[ing] Regan: Performing Parts in King Lear" Paige Martin Reynolds 6
A Piece of Cake, a Bit of Dance, and a Fat Suit on Its Knees: Staging the
Epilogue of 2 Henry IV at the Blackfriars in 2010 James Keegan 7 Isabella
in Measure for Measure: Discovering the Pleasure of Performance Celestine
Woo 8 "You that way, we this way": Letters and Possibilities in Love's
Labour's Lost Sybille Bruun 9 Moll's Queer Anatomy: The Roaring Girl and
Queer Generation Christopher Clary 10 Imaginative Bodies and Bodies
Imagined in Shakespeare's The Tempest and Fletcher and Massinger's The Sea
Voyage Michael Wagoner Part III "Devil in a bear's doublet": Essays on
Shaping Performance 11 The Thundering Audience of King Lear Heidi N. Cephus
12 "Off with his head! ... So much for [Hewlett/Brown]": The African Grove
Theatre Presents Richard III Danielle Rosvally 13 "To make the unskillful
laugh": A Rhetoric of Belches in Twelfth Night Sid Ray 14 "And are by child
with me": The Performance of Pregnancy in Shakespeare's All's Well That
Ends Well Kathryn M. Moncrief 15 "Your majesty came not like yourself":
Staging and Understanding the Glove Episode of Henry V Annalisa Castaldo 16
Bringing Justice to Bear: An Unusual 1609 Trial Catherine Loomis Part IV:
"Dissembling Cub[s]": Essays on Staging the Metatheatrical 17 Doubling in
The Comedy of Errors Alan Armstrong 18 Scare Bear: Playing with Mucedorus
Peter Hyland 19 "Pardon, gentles all": Performing the Metatheatrical Deb
Streusand 20 Craving the Law in The Merchant of Venice, or How to Draft an
Enforceable Contract for a Pound of Flesh Kimberly West Part V "Bear the
Verses": Essays on Rhetoric and Performance 21 Refiguring Richard: Towards
a Hermeneutics of the Figure Peter Kanelos 22 "Ah, poor our sex! This fault
in us I find": Performative Silences in Troilus and Cressida Fiona
Harris-Ramsby 23 Shakespeare and the History of the Bookish Russ McDonald
About the Contributors