Shaping Shakespeare for Performance : The Bear Stage.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (323 pages)
- The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Shakespeare and the Stage Series .
- The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Shakespeare and the Stage Series .
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.
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.