In Shakespeare’s plays, the human face is a focal point. As an area where expression and impression meet (and, ideally, correspond), its reliability and trustworthiness are frequently put to the test, sparking off a controversy which serves as a significant and highly challenging subtext to the overall plot.
About the author
Sibylle Baumbach is currently Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Coordinator at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at the University of Giessen. She has received her PhD from Munich and taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA), and the University of Warwick (UK). Her publications include ‘Let me behold thy face’ – Physiognomik und Gesichtslektüren in Shakespeares Tragödien Heidelberg, 2007) as well as essays on Keats, Conrad, and mythopoetics.
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