Ebook: Shakespeare expressed: page, stage, and classroom in Shakespeare and his contemporaries

Foreword : lightning in a bottle / Ralph Alan Cohen -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Players and Playhouses -- Embodied, Expressed, Enacted / Kathryn R. McPherson -- Part I The Body of the Actor -- Chapter 2 Speaking in the Silence: Deaf Performance at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival / Lezlie C. Cross -- Chapter 3 "I Have Given Suck": The Maternal Body in Sarah Siddons's Lady Macbeth / Chelsea Phillips -- Chapter 4 Competing Heights in Shakespeare's As You Like It / Jemma Alix Levy -- Chapter 5 The Mirror and the Monarchs: Suggestive Presences and Shakespeare's Cast Size / Brett Gamboa -- Chapter 6 Embodying Shakespeare: In the Classroom / Miriam Gilbert -- Part II Playing the Text -- Chapter 7 Remember the Porter: Knock-Knock Jokes, Tragedy, and Other Unfunny Things / Chris Barrett -- Chapter 8 Ghost in the Machine: Shakespeare, Stanislavski, and Original Practices / Peter Kanelos -- Chapter 9 "Speake[ing] the speech[es]": Reassessing the Playability of the Earliest Printings of Hamlet / Matthew Vadnais -- Chapter 10 A "Ha" in Shakespeare: The Soliloquy as Excuse and Challenge to the Audience / Bill Gelber -- Chapter 11 A Knave to Know a Knock: Exploring Character Function in Scenic Structure / Symmonie Preston -- Part III Staging Choices -- Chapter 12 Behind Closed Doors: Perspective and Painterly Technique on the Early Modern English Stage / Jennifer A. Low -- Chapter 13 Shticky Shakespeare: Exploring Action as Eloquence / Sid Ray -- Chapter 14 Seeing Ghosts: Hamlet and Modern Original Practices / Kathryn R. McPherson -- Chapter 15 "Remembrances of Yours": Properties, Performance, and Memory in Shakespeare's Hamlet 3.1 / Kathryn M. Moncrief -- Chapter 16 The Mirror of All Christian Kings: Choral Medievalism in Henry V, Text and Production / Christina Gutierrez -- Chapter 17 Playing with Character-Audience Members in Early Modern Playhouses / Sarah Enloe -- Part IV Playhouse and Playing Conditions -- Chapter 18 Blackfriars Stage Sitters and the Staging of The Tempest, The Maid's Tragedy, and The Two Noble Kinsmen / Leslie Thomson -- Chapter 19 "The Concourse of People on the Stage": An Alternative Proposal for Onstage Seating at the Second Blackfriars / Nova Myhill -- Chapter 20 The Two Blackfriars Theatres: Discontinuity or Contiguity? / Jeanne McCarthy -- Chapter 21 "Here Sit We Down": The Positioning of Andrea and Revenge / Annalisa Castaldo -- Chapter 22 Thomas Middleton's Use of the Gallery Space / Christine Parker -- Chapter 23 Performing Space: Playing the Architecture / Doreen Bechtol -- Part V Technical and Material Matters -- Chapter 24 Heat and Light in the Playhouses / Ann Jennalie Cook -- Chapter 25 Lighting Effects in the Early Modern Private Playhouses / Lauren Shell -- Chapter 26 Sound Trumpets / Alisha Huber -- Chapter 27 Play It Again, Hal: The 1605 Revival of Henry V / Melissa D. Aaron -- Chapter 28 Playing with Early Modern Special Effects / Cass Morris.