A collection of essays on the ways the senses 'speak' on Shakespeare's stage. Drawing on historical phenomenology, science studies, gender studies and natural philosophy, the essays provide critical tools for understanding Shakespeare's investment in staging the senses.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction; L.Gallagher & S.Raman Macbeth and the Perils of Conjecture; S.H.McDowell Eying and Wording in Cymbeline ; B.R.Smith 'O, She's Warm': Touch in The Winter's Tale ; E.Tribble Falling into Extremity; P.Cahill Roman World, Egyptian Earth: Cognitive Difference in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra ; M.Thomas Crane Hamlet in Motion; S.Raman Artifactual Knowledge in Hamlet ; H.Marchitello 'Rich eyes and poor hands': Theaters of Early Modern Experience; A.Rzepka 'Repeat to me the words of the Echo': Listening to The Tempest ; A.K.Deutermann Mind the Gaps: The Ear, the Eye, and the Senses of a Woman in Much Ado About Nothing ; D.E.Henderson Works Cited Notes Index
