Hand on the Shakespearean Stage

Farah Karim-Cooper is Head of Higher Education & Research, Globe Education (Shakespeare's Globe) and Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London, UK.

• Introduction Chapter One: The Idea of the Hand in Shakespeare's WorldChapter Two: Manners and Beauty: The Social HandChapter Three: 'Lively Action': Gesture in Early Modern PerformanceChapter Four: Gesture and Shakespeare's Narrative ArtChapter Five: 'Let Lips do what Hands do': Shakespeare's Sense of TouchChapter Six: Amputation: The Spectacle of Dismemberment in Shakespeare's TheatresEpilogue -- FingersNotesIndex

Farah Karim-Cooper’s The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage: Gesture, Touch, and the Spectacle of Dismemberment combines its author’s expert knowledge of early modern performance with new research on the cultural history of gesture to deliver a groundbreaking account of the emotional, psychological, and social work carried out by the hand on stage.