Stage Matters : Props, Bodies, and Space in Shakespearean Performance 9781683931508, 9781683931492

The stage life of props 9780472098392, 9780472026333, 9780472068395

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Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage 9780226648484

Though modern readers no longer believe in the four humors of Galenic naturalism—blood, choler, melancholy, and phlegm—e

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Shakespearean renunciation: Asceticism and the early modern stage

This dissertation examines the representation of ascetic renunciation in early modern drama, focusing in particular on t

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Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre 9781474257473, 9781474257503, 9781474257497

What do ‘stage directions’ do in early modern drama? Who or what are they directing: action on the stage, or imagination

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Shakespearean Character: Language in Performance 9781350061385, 9781350061415, 9781350061408

Why do we continue to experience many of Shakespeare’s dramatic characters as real people with personal histories, indiv

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Face-to-Face in Shakespearean Drama: Ethics, Performance, Philosophy 9781474435703

Explores the drama of proximity and co-presence in Shakespeare’s plays Brings together the rare pairing of philosophical

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What You Will: Gender, Contract, and Shakespearean Social Space 9780812205039

Kathryn Schwarz considers sixteenth- and seventeenth-century narratives in which women willingly conform to social conve

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The Bible on the Shakespearean Stage 9781107194236, 9781108151887, 1107194237

The first volume to consider how the context of early modern biblical interpretation shaped Shakespeare's plays.

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Bodies. Between Space and Design 9783868599497, 9783868596304

The European tradition of urbanism has two main lines. The more influential of these clearly addresses the “place” as th

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Objects as Actors: Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy 9780226313009

Objects as Actorscharts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy w

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