Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Verbalizing the Visual and Visualizing the Verbal -- Staging Arthur, the Future King: Signs of Edward, the Black Prince -- The Place of the Human: Shakespeare's Stage and the Bear Garden -- "Most truly limned and living in your face": Looking at Pictures in Shakespeare -- "Why do you bend your eye on vacancy?": -- Visual Meaning and Its Absence in -- Mist and Fog on the Elizabethan and Jacobean Stage -- Signifying the "Other" in Early Modern English Drama -- Visualizing and Performing Jewishness: Jews and "Shylocks" on Stage from the Restoration to Late Romanticism -- Dramatic Illusion and Sympathetic Curiosity in Romantic Drama -- The Early Modern Physical Theater -- The Animal Within: The Study and Application of Animal Characteristics as Part of an Actor's Preparation for a Role -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index.