ABSTRACT
Understanding the ways in which designers work to build the settings, costumes, lighting, and sound for productions is akin to understanding the playwright’s process. Once we begin to get a sense of the grammar of composition then we can begin to consider the shape of the dramaturgy. The contributors in this volume applied a range of lenses to analyze the ways in which designers created settings, costumes, lighting and sound as a mode of making Shakespeare comprehensible to audiences.
