Face-to-Face in Shakespearean Drama

Matthew J. Smith is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Azusa Pacific University. Julia Reinhard Lupton is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author or co-author of five books, including Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life (2018), Thinking with Shakespeare (2015), and Citizen-Saints (2012). She has edited or co-edited many volumes and special issues, including Shakespeare and Virtue: A Handbook (with Donovan Sherman), and Shakespeare’s Virtuous Theatre: Power, Capacity, and the Good (with Kent Lehnhof and Carolyn Sale), Shakespeare and Hospitality (with David Goldstein), and Face to Face with Shakespeare (with Matthew Smith). She is a former Guggenheim Fellow and a former Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America.

Face to face encounters are the essence of dramatic art. This collection shows us that close reading - knowing the score - is the condition of possibility for theatrical performance. The essays here feature some of the freshest and most original writing on Shakespeare I have seen in a long time.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Matthew J. Smith and Julia Reinhard LuptonI. Foundational Face Work1. Outface and Interface, Bruce R. Smith2. "Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool": Folie à Deux in Shakespeare’s Love Duets, Lawrence Manley3. The Course of Recognition in Cymbeline, Matthew J. SmithII. Composing Intimacy and Conflict4. Face to Face, Hand to Hand: Relations of Exchange in Hamlet, Emily Shortslef5. Bed Tricks and Fantasies of Facelessness, Devin Byker III. Facing Judgment6. The Face of Judgment in Measure for Measure, Kevin Curran7. Then Face to Face: Timing Trust in Macbeth, Jennifer WaldronIV. Moving Pictures8. The Man of Sorrows: Edgar's Disguise and Dürer's self-portraits, Hanna Scolnicov9. The Face as Rhetorical Self in Ben Jonson’s literature, Akihiko Shimizu 10. Hamlet’s Face, W. B. WorthenAfterword: "Theater and Speculation" William N. West