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A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Leading performance critics dismantle Shakespeare´s texts, identifying theatrical cues in ways which develop understanding of the underlying theatricality of Shakespeare´s plays and stimulate further performances.

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A collection of essays from major performance critics that historicise, analyse and theorise the material text of performance, approaching Shakespeare as a maker of theatre

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Preface; B.Escolme & S.Hampton-Reeves .- Textual Clues and Performance Choices; M.J.Kidnie .- Openings; P.Holland .- Entrances & Exits; R.Conkie .- Endings; P.Prescott .- Visual Scores; C.Carson .- Props; F.Karim-Cooper .- Talking Heads; C.Chillington Rutter .- Costume; B.Escolme .- Fighting; S.Hampton-Reeves .- Audiences; S.Werner .- Sound; P.A.Skantze .- Silence; R.Shaughnessy .- Afterword; J.R.Brown .- Bibliography.- Index.

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BRIDGET ESCOLME Senior Lecturer in the Department of Drama at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Her publications include Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self and Antony and Cleopatra in the Palgrave Shakespeare Handbooks series. She has worked as a performer and a dramaturge in the UK and USA.
STUART HAMPTON-REEVES Professor of Research-informed Teaching at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He is the author of Shakespeare in Performance: the Henry VI Plays, Shakespeare´s Histories and Counter-Histories and Measure for Measure in the Shakespeare Handbooks series. He was Performance Editor for the journal Shakespeare from 2004-7 and is currently Treasurer of the British Shakespeare Association.

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