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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 487–495.
Published: 01 September 2021
... the methodological toolkit for investigating performance offers a useful blueprint for researching other ineffable but consequential historical experiences that exceed, by definition, the documentary evidence. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 early modern theatrical spectacle nondramatic...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 477–486.
Published: 01 September 2021
... conclusions about early modern English performance in light of new research and theory. The article deploys new thinking about performance historiography, arguing that such perspectives unsettle the easy placement of an event in historical chronology, disrupt archival logic, and insist on a degree...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 229–252.
Published: 01 May 2008
... impact on contemporary produc- tions of Shakespeare and the closest approximation to date of an early mod- ern theatrical experience within modern constraints: this was Shakespeare, as one reviewer put it, without “any mustiness of the museum.”4 Productions like the Globe’s 2002 Twelfth...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 315–337.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of temporalities and of the cultural concerns of both the late Middle Ages and early modern period.13 Croxton’s temporal pliability is also, surprisingly, apparent in its subject matter of host desecration and the phenomenon of transubstantiation, as well as in its uneasiness about the spectacle...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 271–298.
Published: 01 May 2024
... are, however, neither early modern nor modern: a version of it can be found in the medieval eucharistic thinking that the Play of the Sacrament brought to the theatrical stage . My account primarily attends to the cultural and devotional context in which the play was originally performed: it aims...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 269–304.
Published: 01 May 2002
... the continuing contestation over both the powerful symbols that configured social space in late medieval cities and the affiliation of those symbols with different spon- 294 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 32.2 / 2002 sors. Indeed, the spectacle marking Catherine of Aragon’s entry into Lon...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 503–531.
Published: 01 September 2022
... acts for which they were being punished. 32 These spectacles of theatrical retribution are closely related to the charivari , an ordeal of shame recorded in cities, towns, and villages across medieval and early modern Europe. In many of the French communities Davis describes, both...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 387–395.
Published: 01 September 2021
... “is in danger of being yet another grand theory of everything,” in Theatricality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 32. 9 Henry S. Turner, ed., Early Modern Theatricality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). 10 Gina Bloom and Susan Bennett, “Shakespeare and Performance Studies...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 533–565.
Published: 01 September 2022
...) close attention to the ethical, theological, and affective dimensions of charity and poverty in early modern England. Throughout the play, Edgar's disparate disguises (mad beggar, simple guide, masked soldier) and fraught encounters (with Lear, with Gloucester, and with Edmund) unearth tensions between...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 339–374.
Published: 01 May 2000
... richness has been tapped by scholars to sup- port a number of positions on theatrical production for the early modern stage, particulary the ubiquity of collaborative work between dramatists. This ubiquity—G. E. Bentley estimates that between one-half and two-thirds of Renaissance plays were composed...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 173–195.
Published: 01 January 2010
... self- placement as “popular,” abjectly enthralled by “the intemperate surfeit of [its] 180  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 40.1 / 2010 eye” (4.3.67) to the spectacle of an unattainable aristocratic virtue.19 We are presented with a thematics of vision that constantly frames...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 509–531.
Published: 01 September 2021
...,” in Early Modern Theatricality (Oxford: University of Oxford Press, 2013), 1–23, at 6. 29 Seth Ward, Vindiciae Academiarum (London, 1654), sig. B1v (my emphasis). 30 Margaret Cavendish, “Letter CXCV,” in CCXI Sociable Letters (London, 1664), sigs. 3E4r and 3E3v respectively...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 49–70.
Published: 01 January 2013
... a site of erotic fantasy. Marlowe harnesses the potential afforded early modern Ireland while exploring the way the theatrical representation of a geographically tangible place could produce a range of responses constitutive of imaginative space. Atwood / Edward II...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 671–684.
Published: 01 September 2020
... and translations 2. Historiography, historians, and critical theory 3. Diplomacy 4. Law and justice 5. Chivalry and nobility 6. Saints and religious professions 7. Theater and spectacle 8. Music 672 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 50.3 / 2020 1. Editions and translations Aethelwold, Saint, Bishop...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 253–283.
Published: 01 May 2008
... exteriorizes the soul’s inner faculties: Anima is recast in the 254  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 38.2 / 2008 middle of the drama as her three “mights,” Mind, Will, and Understanding. As in the Augustinian contemplative tradition from which the play draws, the inner faculties...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 421–459.
Published: 01 May 2012
....” –  – 448 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.2 / 2012 Theseus, (in the words of the same Pauline text that informs “Bottom’s dream trusts not to eye or ear, but to the imagination in order to grasp “all things, yea, the deep things” — which is to say, the bottom — of “poor” spectacle...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 145–172.
Published: 01 January 2013
...: Gender and Property in Early Modern England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), 132. 44 Rayner, “Rude Mechanicals,” epigraph, 535, and passim. I am also indebted to the collaborative research project on theatrical entries and exits supervised by Christo- pher...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (2): 261–280.
Published: 01 May 2003
... a number of different answers to the question as to why the host continues to look and taste like bread.13 I will return to the impli- 264 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 33.2 / 2003 cations of these doctrines for a theatrical phenomenology later, but it should be noticed at the outset...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 453–473.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Jill P. Ingram This article draws on performance theory to examine perambulation practices in late medieval and early modern England. Rogation was originally a devotional celebration that also entailed a ritual walking of parish boundaries to define communities as legal and administrative units...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 577–585.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., 2018). Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 medieval and early modern English theater and spectacle performance analysis archival documents historical periodization A year or so before Hamlet premiered in London's theater district, an elderly antiquarian named John Stow...