James A. Knapp, ed. Shakespeare and the Power of Face.

James A. Knapp, ed. Shakespeare and the Power of Face. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. xiii + 208. $104.95.

This volume begins with a list of figures (vii-viii), notes on contributors (ix-xii), acknowledgments (xiii), and an introduction by the editors (1-14). The primary text includes essays in three parts. Part 1, "Powerful Faces," includes: Sibylle Baumbach, '"Thy face is mine': Faces and Fascinations in Shakespeare's Plays" (15-28); Farah Karim-Cooper, "Fashioning the Face: Embodiment and Desire in Early Modern Poetry" (29-42); Loreen L. Giese, "Facing Marital Cruelty in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and Early Modern London" (43-60). Part 2, "Signifying Faces," includes: Sean Lawrence, "The Two Faces of Othello" (61-74); David B. Goldstein, "Facing King Lear" (75-91); Vanessa Corredera, "Complex Complexions: The Facial Signification of the Black Other in Lusts Dominion" (93-114). Part 3, "Staged Faces," includes: Catherine Loomis, '"I knew by his face there was something in him': Buried Stage Directions and Authorial Control" (115-26); Penelope Woods, "The Play of Looks: Audience and the Force of the Early Modern Face" (127-50); Yolana Wassersug, "'The counterfeit presentment of two brothers': The Power of Portraits in Hamlet" (151-62); Hillary M. Nunn and Aaron Hubbard, "'This painting wherein you see me smeared': Francis Bacon, Coriolanus, and the Brutality of Facialization" (163-78). The text concludes with an afterword by Michael Neill (179-84), a bibliography (185-200), and an index (201-8).