The Arden Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare’s Theatres and the Effects of Performance 9781408146927, 9781472558596, 9781408174654, 9781408174647

Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PREFACE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Introduction
Part One: The Fabric of Early Modern Theatres
Chapter One: ‘This Wide and Universal Theatre’: The Theatre as Prop in Shakespeare’s Metadrama
Chapter Two: Storm Effects in Shakespeare
Chapter Three: Performing Materiality: Curtains on the Early Modern Stage
Part Two: Technologies of the Body
Chapter Four: ‘They eat each other’s arms’: Stage Blood and Body Parts
Chapter Five: Cosmetic Transformations
Chapter Six: Costume, Disguise and Self-display
Chapter Seven: Character Acting
Part Three: The Sensory Stage
Chapter Eight: Within, Without, Withinwards: The Circulation of Sound in Shakespeare’s Theatre
Chapter Nine: ‘As Dirty as Smithfield and as Stinking Every Whit’: The Smell of the Hope Theatre
Chapter Ten: Touch and Taste in Shakespeare’s Theatres
Chapter Eleven: ‘Sight and Spectacle’
NOTES
INDEX
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