...Sara Petrosillo This essay examines representations of the womb across late medieval and early modern performance. The N-Town Mary plays and the Elizabethan tragedy Gorboduc are separated by less than a century but are rarely examined in light of one another. Using microhistorical methods...

... on Gorboduc as an example of an early Elizabethan play in which the people are evoked as crucial but unstaged political players; then on 2 Henry VI as a drama that continues and complicates earlier traditions of aligning the 562  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 37.3 / 2007 commons...

... might we learn from dramatic writing as a spur to embodiment by regarding it archaeologically, neither as dead media ( Gorboduc : software for which no embodiment hardware remains) nor as eternally living media ( Hamlet : software universally embodiable), but as altered by the conditions of its zombie...

... and abdicate rule (Marlowe would have known from the 1561 tragedy Gorboduc how that will transpire Already, the spatial threat of dividing England into “several kingdoms” looms. This hypotheti- cal map-­based and thus representational space division, while traumatic, is not impossible. But the “nook...

... Renaissance playwrights, such as the authors of Gorboduc, Shakespeare chose, more than once, to stage the voluntary withdrawal of rulers from power, most notably in King Lear, Measure for Measure, and at the end of As You Like It. 70 Berry, “Salving the mail,” 99. Gillian Woods notes that “[w...

..., “The Desert War of a Carolingian Monk”; Peter Arnade and Elizabeth Colwill, “Crime and Testimony: Life Narratives, Pardon Letters, and Microhistory”; and Sara Petrosillo, “A Microhistory of the Womb from the N-­Town Mary Plays to Gorboduc,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 47, no. 1...