Stage Matters: Props, Bodies, and Space in Shakespearean Performance

Book Overview

This collection features nine essays that explore how the material conditions of the early modern English stage shaped the theater. Topics range from the simulation of pregnant bodies by boy actors (and the effects of those simulations) to how bruises created by make-up might have been used on stage

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1683931513
• ISBN13: 9781683931515
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"