Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: King Richard III and Characters as Actors -- Chapter Two: Kate's Audacious Speech of Submission -- Chapter Three: Much Ado about Personation -- Chapter Four: Iago's Acting Style -- Chapter Five: Marina as Charorator -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
To refine a critical understanding of early modern acting styles, Shakespeare's Dramatic Persons explores how the classical rhetorical tradition would inform an actor's personation of character.