Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Table of Illustrations
Foreword: “Plays and Things” by Ralph Alan Cohen
Introduction
1. Bring out your dead: corpses, funerals and skulls
2. Off with his head: crowns and the heads that wear them
3. “Exit pursued by a bear” (The Winter’s Tale, 3.3.58): Shakespeare’s dramatis animalia
4. “Come, let’s away to prison” (Lear, 5.3.8)
5. “There’s magic in the web of it” (Othello, 3.4.69): handkerchiefs and napkins
6. “Come on, then, let’s to bed” (Romeo and Juliet, 1.5.125)
7. “The wood began to move” (Macbeth 5.5.34): stage greenery
8. “Imaginary puissance” (Henry V, Prol. 25): arms and armor
9. “Welcome to our table” (As You Like It, 2.7.105): tables and chairs
10. “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” (2 Henry VI, 4.2.76): courtrooms and killings
11. “[O]’er-read these letters / And well consider of them” (2 Henry IV, 3.1.2–3)
12. “This simulation is not as the former” (Twelfth Night, 2.5.138–39): Simulating Places and People on Stage
13. “What, a hodge-pudding? A bag of flax?” (Merry Wives of Windsor, 5.5.151)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
