Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage collects significant work from the 2013 Blackfriars Conference. The conference; sponsored by the American Shakespeare Center; brings together scholars; actors; directors; dramaturges; and students to share important new work on the staging practices used by William Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The volumersquo;s contributors range from renowned scholars and editors to acclaimed directors; highly-trained actors; and budding researchers. The topics cover a similarly wide range: a close reading of an often-cut scene from Henry V meets an account of staging pregnancy; a meticulous review of early modern contract law collides with an analysis of an actor in a bear costume; an account of printed punctuation from the 1600s encounters a study of audience interaction and empowerment in King Lear; the identification of candid doubling in A Comedy of Errors meets the troubling of gender categories in The Roaring Girl. The essays focus on the practical applications of theory; scholarship; and editing to performance of early modern plays.
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