This Wide and Universal Theater : Shakespeare in Performance, Then and Now

List of Figures ix 1 Actions That a Man Might Play 1 An Introduction 2. There Lies the Scene 11 Actors and Theaters in Late Elizabethan England 3 A Local Habitation and a Name 39 Stage Business in the Comedies 4 Thus Play I in One Person Many People 73 Performing the Histories 5 Like a Strutting Player 105 Staging Moral Ambiguity in Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida 6 The Motive and the Cue for Passion 129 Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello in Performance 7 A Poor Player That Struts and Frets His Hour upon the Stage 159 Role-playing in King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra 8 Insubstantial Pageant 191 Shakespeare's Farewell to the Stage 9 This Falls Out Better Than I Could Devise 219 An Afterword Further Reading 225 Index 231