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Shaping Shakespeare for Performance : The Bear Stage.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Shakespeare and the Stage SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (323 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611477856
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shaping Shakespeare for PerformanceDDC classification:
  • 822.33
LOC classification:
  • PR3091 -- .S396 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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