Stage Matters

Annalisa Castaldo is associate professor of English at Widener University.Rhonda Knight is professor of English at Coker College.

• AcknowledgmentsPreface: An Introduction and Primer to the American Shakespeare Center by Sarah EnloeIntroduction by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda KnightChapter 1: Whose Experiment is it Anyway?: Some Models for Practice-as-Research in Shakespeare Studies by Stephen PurcellChapter 2: Shakespeare’s Spirits: Staging the Supernatural on the Early Modern Stage by Jim CaseyChapter 3: Staging Epilepsy in Othello by Sid RayChapter 4: ’Sore hurt and bruised’: Visual Damage in Othello” by Catherine LoomisChapter 5: ’Heave Up!’: The ‘Wicked Weight’ of Shakespeare’s Antony and York’s Christ” by R. W. JonesChapter 6: Hiding in Plain Sight: Eavesdropping and the Physicality of the Stage by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda KnightChapter 6: The ‘Dead Body Problem’: The Dramaturgy of Coffins on the Renaissance Stage by Sarah NevilleChapter 7: ’Cushion come forth’: Materializing Pregnancy on the Stuart Stage” by Sara B. T. ThielChapter 8: Maternal Revision in Middleton’s More Dissemblers Besides Women by Aman