Shakespeare Expressed

Kathyrn M. Moncrief is professor and chair of English at Washington College. Kathryn R. McPherson is professor of English at Utah Valley University. Sarah Enloe is the Director of Education at the American Shakespeare Center.

• Foreword: Lightning in a BottleRalph Alan CohenChapter 1: Introduction: Shakespeare Embodied, Expressed, and EnactedKathryn Moncrief and Kathryn McPherson:I. The Body of the ActorChapter 2: Speaking in the Silence: Deaf Performance at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalLezlie CrossChapter 3: “I Have Given Suck:” The Maternal Body in Sarah Siddons' Lady MacbethChelsea PhillipsChapter 4: Competing HeightsJemma Alix LevyChapter 5: The Mirror and the Monarchs: Suggestive Presences and Shakespeare’s Cast-SizeBrett GamboaChapter 6: Embodying Shakespeare: In the ClassroomMiriam GilbertII. Playing the TextChapter 7: Remember the Porter: Knock-Knock Jokes, Tragedy, and Other Unfunny ThingsChris BarrettChapter 8: Ghost in the Machine: Shakespeare, Stanislavski and Original PracticesPeter KanelosChapter 9: “Speake[ing] the speech[es]:” Reassessing the Playability of the Earliest Printings of HamletMatthew VadnaisChapter 10: A “Ha” in Shakespeare: The Soliloquy as Excuse and Challenge to the AudienceBill GelberChapter 11: A Knave to Know a Knock: Exploring Character Function in Scenic StructureSymmonie PrestonIII. Staging ChoicesChapter 12: Behind Closed Doors: Perspective and Painterly Technique on the Early Modern English StageJennifer LowChapter 13: Shticky Shakespeare: Exploring Action as EloquenceSid RayChapter 14: Seeing Ghosts: Hamlet and Modern Original PracticesFiona Harris-Ramsby & Kathryn McPhersonChapter 15: Remembrances of yours’: Properties, Performance, and Memory in Shakespeare’s Hamlet 3.1Kathryn MoncriefChapter 16: The Mirror of All Christian Kings: Choral Medievalism in the Henry V FolioChristina GutierrezChapter 17: Playing with Character-Audience Members in Early Modern PlayhousesSarah EnloeIV. Playhouse and Playing ConditionsChapter 18: Blackfriars Stage-Sitters and the Staging of The Tempest, The Maid’s Tragedy and The Two Noble KinsmenLeslie ThomsonChapter 19: “The Concourse of People on the Stage”: An Alternative Proposal for Onstage Seating at the Second BlackfriarsNova MyhillChapter 20: The Two Blackfriars Theatres: Discontinuity or Contiguity?Jeanne McCarthyChapter 21: “Here sit we down…”: The Location of Andrea and Revenge in The Spanish TragedyAnnalisa CastaldoChapter 22: Thomas Middleton’s Use of the Gallery SpaceChristine ParkerChapter 23: Performing Space: Playing the ArchitectureDoreen BechtolV. Technical and Material MattersChapter 24: Light and Heat in the PlayhousesAnn Jennalie CookChapter 25: Lighting Effects in the Early Modern Private PlayhousesLauren ShellChapter 26: Sound TrumpetsAlisha HuberChapter 27: Play it again, Hal: The 1605 Revival of Henry VMelissa AaronChapter 28: Playing with Early Modern Special EffectsCass Morris

This book would be most helpful for pedagogical and performative purposes; both for educators seeking to incorporate practical staging issues into their classrooms and for performance practitioners. It fosters an important conversation on the role of the practical by examining factors sometimes overlooked as tangential.