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

by Annalisa Castaldo (Editor), Rhonda Knight (Editor), Jim Casey (Contribution by)

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

Author Biography

Annalisa Castaldo is associate professor of English at Widener University.