Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Conventions; Name; Introduction: Naming of Parts; Prop; 1 'Settinge up a shoppe': Inventories and Props; Performance; 2 'Lend me thy basin, apron and razor': Disguise, (Mis)Appropriation, and Play; Sign; 3 Semiotics of Barber-Surgery in Shakespeare: Chair and Basin; Sound; 4 'And pleasant harmonie shall sound in your eares': Ballads, Music and Groans, Snip-snaps, Fiddlesticks, Ear-picks, and Wax; Voice; 5 'An unnecessary flood of words'?; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index