Contents: Introduction: setting the stage, Deborah Uman and Sara Morrison; Part I Petrarchan Lovers in Performance: Double exposure: gazing at male fantasy in Shakespearean comedy, Grant Williams; Petrarchan desire, the female ghost, and The Winter’s Tale, Katherine R. Kellett; Dismembering rhetoric and lively action in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Elizabeth Williamson. Part II Staging Blazonic Violence: Transforming Ovid: images of violence, vulnerability, and sexuality in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Lisa S. Starks-Estes; Embodying the blazon: performing and transforming pain in Measure for Measure and The Duchess of Malfi, Sara Morrison. Part III Dramatizing Dismemberment: ‘Limbs mangled and torn asunder’: dismemberment, theatricality, and the blazon in Christopher Marlowe’s Dr Faustus, Patricia Marchesi; The cuckold’s blazon: dismemberment and domesticity in Arden of Faversham and A Woman Killed with Kindness, Ariane M. Balizet; ‘Ay me, this object kills me!’: Julie Taymor’s cinematic blazon in Titus, Thomas P. Anderson. Part IV Historical Reenactments: By the book: blazoning the subject in Shakespeare’s history plays, Joseph M. Ortiz; The blazon and the theatre of war: The Wars of the Roses and The Plantagenets, Lisa Dickson; ‘They use violence to him’: dismembering the body politic in The Rebellion of Naples, Erin E. Kelly. Part V Witnessing the Blazon: Dissection, pregnancy, and the limits of knowledge in early midwifery treatises and ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Sara D. Luttfring; ‘The garments of Posthumus’: identifying the non-responsive body in Cymbeline, Nancy Simpson-Younger; Blazons of desire and war in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Cora Fox; Bibliography; Index.