Shaping Shakespeare for Performance

Catherine Loomis is professor of English and women’s studies at the University of New Orleans. She is the author of William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume and The Death of Elizabeth I: Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen.Sid Ray is professor of English and women’s and gender studies at Pace University, New York campus. She is the author of Holy Estates: Marriage and Monarchy in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries and Mother Queens and Princely Sons: Rogue Madonnas in the Age of Shakespeare.

• AcknowledgmentsDedicationForewordRalph Alan CohenThe Bear StageCatherine Loomis and Sid RayPart I “Edit, pursued by a bear”:Essays on Editing Shakespeare for the Stage and the Page1 “Now this is where you can bring in Cleopatra’s horse”: Editing Shakespeare for the StageAnn Thompson2 Patient Auditor to Gentle Reader: Transforming the Introduction from Playhouse to Print HouseAnn Pleiss Morris 3 “Why do you thus exclaim?”: Emotionally Inflected Punctuation in Editorial Practice and in PerformanceCass MorrisPart II: “I must bear a part”: Essays on Analyzing and Playing Character4 Why Are Shakespeare’s Characters So Relatable?Matt Kozusko5 Anatomiz[ing] Regan: Performing Parts in King Lear”Paige Martin Reynolds6 A Piece of Cake, a Bit of Dance, and a Fat Suit on Its Knees: Staging the Epilogue of 2 Henry IV at the Blackfriars in 2010James Keegan7 Isabella in Measure for Measure: Discovering the Pleasure of PerformanceCelestine Woo8 “You that way, we this way”: Letters and Possibilities in Love’s Labour’s LostSybille Bruun9 Moll’s Queer Anatomy: The Roaring Girl and Queer GenerationChristopher Clary10 Imaginative Bodies and Bodies Imagined in Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Fletcher and Massinger’s The Sea VoyageMichael WagonerPart III“Devil in a bear’s doublet”: Essays on Shaping Performance11 The Thundering Audience of King LearHeidi N. Cephus12 “Off with his head! … So much for [Hewlett/Brown]”: The African Grove Theatre Presents Richard IIIDanielle Rosvally13 “To make the unskillful laugh”: A Rhetoric of Belches in Twelfth NightSid Ray14 “And are by child with me”: The Performance of Pregnancy in Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends WellKathryn M. Moncrief15 “Your majesty came not like yourself”: Staging and Understanding the Glove Episode of Henry VAnnalisa Castaldo16 Bringing Justice to Bear: An Unusual 1609 TrialCatherine LoomisPart IV:“Dissembling Cub[s]”: Essays on Staging the Metatheatrical 17 Doubling in The Comedy of ErrorsAlan Armstrong18 Scare Bear: Playing with MucedorusPeter Hyland19 “Pardon, gentles all”: Performing the MetatheatricalDeb Streusand20 Craving the Law in The Merchant of Venice, or How to Draft an Enforceable Contract for a Pound of FleshKimberly WestPart V“Bear the Verses”: Essays on Rhetoric and Performance21 Refiguring Richard: Towards a Hermeneutics of the FigurePeter Kanelos22 “Ah, poor our sex! This fault in us I find”: Performative Silences in Troilus and CressidaFiona Harris-Ramsby23 Shakespeare and the History of the BookishRuss McDonaldAbout the Contributors

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