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Full Description
Explores the drama of proximity and co-presence in Shakespeare's plays
Key Features
Brings together the rare pairing of philosophical ethics and performance studies in Shakespeare's playsEngages with the thought of philosophers including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hannah Arendt, Paul Ricoeur, Stanley Cavell, and Emmanuel Levinas
This book celebrates the theatrical excitement and philosophical meanings of human interaction in Shakespeare. On stage and in life, the face is always window and mirror, representation and presence. It examines the emotional and ethical surplus that appears between faces in the activity and performance of human encounter on stage. By transitioning from face as noun to verb - to face, outface, interface, efface, deface, sur-face - chapters reveal how Shakespeare's plays discover conflict, betrayal and deception as well as love, trust and forgiveness between faces and the bodies that bear them.
Contents
AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Matthew J. Smith and Julia Reinhard Lupton
I. Foundational Face Work
1. Outface and Interface, Bruce R. Smith
2. "Everybody's Somebody's Fool": Folie à Deux in Shakespeare's Love Duets, Lawrence Manley
3. The Course of Recognition in Cymbeline, Matthew J. Smith
II. Composing Intimacy and Conflict
4. Face to Face, Hand to Hand: Relations of Exchange in Hamlet, Emily Shortslef
5. Bed Tricks and Fantasies of Facelessness, Devin Byker
III. Facing Judgment
6. The Face of Judgment in Measure for Measure, Kevin Curran
7. Then Face to Face: Timing Trust in Macbeth, Jennifer Waldron
IV. Moving Pictures
8. The Man of Sorrows: Edgar's Disguise and Dürer's self-portraits, Hanna Scolnicov
9. The Face as Rhetorical Self in Ben Jonson's literature, Akihiko Shimizu
10. Hamlet's Face, W. B. Worthen
Afterword: "Theater and Speculation" William N. West
