Shakespeare in Parts

INTRODUCTION I: HISTORY 1. The Actor's Part 2. The Actors 3. Rehearsing and Performing II: INTERPRETING CUES 4. History of the Cue 5. Interpreting Shakespeare's Cues 6. Cues and Characterisation 7. Waiting and Suddenness: the Part in Time 8. Repeated Cues 9. Repeated cues: from Crowds to Clowns 10. Repeated cues: comi-tragic/tragic-comic pathos 11. Repeated cues and the battle for the cue-space: The Merchant of Venice 12. Repeated cues and tragedy 13. Repeated cues and the cue-space in King Lear 14. Repeated cues and post-tragic effects 15. Repeated Cues and the Cue-Space in The Tempest III: THE ACTOR WITH HIS PART 16. History 17. Dramatic prosody 18. Prosodic Switches: From Actor's Prompt to Absent Presence 19. Midline shifts in 'mature' Shakespeare: from actorly instruction to 'virtual' presence 20. Case studies: six romantic heroines and three lonely men