Shakespeare Expressed
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Shakespeare Expressed

Page, Stage, and Classroom in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

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Shakespeare Expressed

Page, Stage, and Classroom in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

About this book

A collection of essays originally presented on the Blackfriars stage at the American Shakesepeare Center, Shakespeare Expressed brings together scholars and practitioners, often promoting ideas that can be translated into classroom experiences. Drawing on essays presented at the Sixth Blackfriars Conference, held in October 2011, the essays focus on Shakespeare in performance by including work from scholars, theatrical practitioners (actors, directors, dramaturgs, designers), and teachers in a format that facilitates conversations at the intersection of textual scholarship, theatrical performance, and pedagogy. The volume's thematic sections briefly represent some of the major issues occupying scholars and practitioners: how to handle staging choices, how modern actors embody early modern characters, how the physical and technical aspects of early modern theaters previously impacted and how they currently affect performance, and how the play texts can continue to enlighten theatrical and scholarly endeavors. A special essay on pedagogy that features specific classroom exercises also anchors each section in the collection. The result is an eclectic, stimulating, and forward-thinking look at the most current trends in early modern theater studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Foreword
  4. Chapter 1: Introduction
  5. Part I: The Body of the Actor
  6. Chapter 2: Speaking in the Silence
  7. Chapter 3: “I Have Given Suck”
  8. Chapter 4: Competing Heights in Shakespeare’s As You Like It
  9. Chapter 5: The Mirror and the Monarchs
  10. Chapter 6: Embodying Shakespeare
  11. Part II: Playing the Text
  12. Chapter 7: Remember the Porter
  13. Chapter 8: Ghost in the Machine
  14. Chapter 9: “Speake[ing] the speech[es]”
  15. Chapter 10: A “Ha” in Shakespeare
  16. Chapter 11: A Knave to Know a Knock
  17. Part III: Staging Choices
  18. Chapter 12: Behind Closed Doors
  19. Chapter 13: Shticky Shakespeare
  20. Chapter 14: Seeing Ghosts
  21. Chapter 15: “Remembrances of Yours”
  22. Chapter 16: The Mirror of All Christian Kings
  23. Chapter 17: Playing with Character–Audience Members in Early Modern Playhouses
  24. Part IV: Playhouse and Playing Conditions
  25. Chapter 18: Blackfriars Stage Sitters and the Staging of The Tempest, The Maid’s Tragedy, and The Two Noble Kinsmen
  26. Chapter 19: “The Concourse of the People on the Stage”
  27. Chapter 20: The Two Blackfriars Theatres
  28. Chapter 21: “Here Sit We Down”
  29. Chapter 22: Thomas Middleton’s Use of the Gallery Space
  30. Chapter 23: Performing Space
  31. Part V: Technical and Material Matters
  32. Chapter 24: Heat and Light in the Playhouses
  33. Chapter 25: Lighting Effects in the Early Modern Private Playhouses
  34. Chapter 26: Sound Trumpets
  35. Chapter 27: Play It Again, Hal
  36. Chapter 28: Playing with Early Modern Special Effects
  37. About the Contributors