Shakespeare and Character

1. Introduction
Paul Yachnin, Jessica Slights

Part I. Theory

2. Confusing Shakespeare’s Characters with Real People: Reflections on Reading in Four Questions
Michael Bristol

3. The Reality of Fictive Cinematic Characters
Trevor Ponech

4. Character as Dynamic Identity: From Fictional Interaction Script to Performance
William Dodd

Part II. History

5. Personnage: History, Philology, Performance
André G. Bourassa

6. The Properties of Character in King Lear

James Berg

7. Embodied Intersubjectivity and the Creation of Early Modern Character
Leanore Lieblein

Part III. Performance

8. Metatheater and the Performance of Character in The Winter’s Tale

Paul Yachnin, Myrna Wyatt Selkirk

9. Character, Agency and the Familiar Actor
Andrew James Hartley

10. The Actor-Character in “Secretly Open” Action: Doubly Encoded Personation on Shakespeare’s Stage
Robert Weimann

Part IV. Theatrical Persons

11. Is Timon a Character?
Anthony Dawson

12. When Is a Bastard Not a Bastard? Character and Conscience in King John

Camille Slights

13. Arming Cordelia: Character and Performance
Sarah Werner

Nyckelord: Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature