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Shakespeare expressed : page, stage, and classroom in Shakespeare and his contemporaries / edited by Kathryn M. Moncrief, Kathryn R. McPherson, Sarah Enloe.

Contents: Foreword: Lightning in a Bottle Ralph Alan Cohen Chapter 1: Introduction: Shakespeare Embodied, Expressed, and Enacted Kathryn Moncrief and Kathryn McPherson: I. The Body of the Actor Chapter 2: Speaking in the Silence: Deaf Performance at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Lezlie Cross Chapter 3: "I Have Given Suck:" The Maternal Body in Sarah Siddons' Lady Macbeth Chelsea Phillips Chapter 4: Competing Heights 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 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 III. Staging Choices Chapter 12: Behind Closed Doors: Perspective and Painterly Technique on the Early Modern English Stage Jennifer Low Chapter 13: Shticky Shakespeare: Exploring Action as Eloquence Sid Ray Chapter 14: Seeing Ghosts: Hamlet and Modern Original Practices Fiona Harris-Ramsby Kathryn McPherson Chapter 15: Remembrances of yours': Properties, Performance, and Memory in Shakespeare's Hamlet 3.1 Kathryn Moncrief Chapter 16: The Mirror of All Christian Kings: Choral Medievalism in the Henry V Folio Christina Gutierrez Chapter 17: Playing with Character-Audience Members in Early Modern Playhouses Sarah Enloe 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 Location of Andrea and Revenge in The Spanish Tragedy Annalisa Castaldo Chapter 22: Thomas Middleton's Use of the Gallery Space Christine Parker Chapter 23: Performing Space: Playing the Architecture Doreen Bechtol V. Technical and Material Matters Chapter 24: Light and Heat 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 Aaron Chapter 28: Playing with Early Modern Special Effects Cass Morris.