.... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (2012) 2018. xii, 216 pp. Paper $34.95. Paulson, Julie. Theater of the Word: Selfhood in the English Morality Play. ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019. x, 229 pp. $100.00, paper $45.00. Rodgers, Amy J...

... Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 41:1, Winter 2011 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2010-013 © 2011 by Duke University Press critique of Spanish cruelties in the New World (Brevissima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) helped English Protestants promote their seem- ingly benign...

... Judgements , sig. A4r. 12 On the literature of late medieval confession and its early modern transformations, see Sarah Beckwith, Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2011), 15–56; Beckwith, “Language Goes on Holiday: English Allegorical Drama...

... of Wisdom,” Philological Quarterly 53 (1974): 342 – 62; Eugene D. Hill, “The Trinitarian Allegory of the Moral Play of Wisdom,” Modern Philology 73 (1975): 121 – 35; Wolfgang Riehle, “English Mysticism and the Morality Play Wisdom Who Is Christ,” in The Medieval Mystical Tradition...

... of theatri- cality throughout the sixteenth century. As the 2002 production of Twelfth Night emphasized, within the context of the all-male late medieval and early modern English stages, the clothes made the woman: gender difference on the Globe’s stage was inter- preted as a visual spectacle...

... Polito, “Thinking Site: An Introduction,” in Performing Environments: Site-Specificity in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama , ed. Bennett and Polito (New York: Palgrave, 2014), 1–13, at 5. 5 Joseph Roach, Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance (New York: Columbia University Press...

... the level of spectacle and formality that had devel- oped in France and Italy (131) and that there is little medieval English evidence 318 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 50.2 / 2020 that tells us consistently about the moments before the gallows journey, the size and response of the crowd...

... and the Forms of Oblivion 275 4 James Simpson, “Ageism: Leland, Bale, and the Laborious Start of English Literary History, 1350–1550,” New Medieval Literatures 1 (1997): 213. 5 Margreta De Grazia has recently written about the close identification of Hamlet with the beginning of the modern age...

..., 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...

... II,” which was fol- lowed by Alan Bray’s 1982 comprehensive study Homosexuality in the English Renaissance.4 Since then, scholars led by David Thurn, Jonathan Goldberg, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 43:1, Winter 2013 DOI 10.1215/10829636-1902540­­   ©...

... as a prescient predecessor, but as a participant in the same culture. 316  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 46.2 / 2016 That conjunction of medieval and early modern can be seen even in the sixteenth-­century textual situation. Like nearly all medieval English drama, the surviving...

...: Unpublished Verses in a War of the Theatres,” Yearbook of English Studies 10 [1980]: 202). Instead, Gurr emphasizes the fray within the Blackfriars audience rather than between the two theaters. 33 Brome, The Jovial Crew, 14. 370 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 30.2 / 2000 34...

.... Gibson, ed., Records of Early English Drama: Kent; Diocese of Canterbury , 3 vols. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), 2:535. I discuss Maid Marian's sexuality further in “A Witch in the Morris: Hobbyhorse Tricks and Early Modern Erotic Transformations,” in The Oxford Handbook of Dance...

.... Early English drama studies is one field where the work of open- ing borders between medieval and early modern literary histories is already well under way. Aesthetic and cultural models that once opposed a primitive medieval drama to the mature achievements of Elizabethan theater have now been...

... Publications, 1986), 31–122; and his very helpful catalogue of saints’ plays in “Saint Plays and Pageants of Medieval Britian,” Early Drama, Art, and Music Review 22 (fall 1999): 11–37. Also useful are Clifford Davidson, “Saints in Play: English Theater and Saints’ Lives,” in Saints: Studies...

... with late medieval and early modern English provincial drama, the ass’s head “fixed” on Bottom by Robin Goodfellow, or Puck, is Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 42:2, Spring 2012 DOI © 2012 by Duke University Press generally discussed in the context of classical...

...: Diocese of Canterbury . Records of Early English Drama. 3 vols. Vol. 1: records of Alkham to Canterbury. Vol. 2: records of Chart Sutton to Wormshill, religious houses, households, county of Kent, 538Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 33.3 / 2003 province of Canterbury, diocese...

... English Play of the Sacrament eucharistic theology transubstantiation scientific empiricism devotional perception Medieval devotional drama, it is often remarked, employs the resources of theater in order to render doctrinal or theological abstractions concrete. As Greg Walker puts it, drama...

... to construct the difference between the medieval and the early modern in Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), while my analysis of the tradition of focusing on the Renaissance sense of the past as constitutive of the period itself is developed...

... physical and cultural placement, the early modern English theater was locative as much as utopian. Ambiguous in its spatial relation to centers of authority, it adjusted to varying mate- rial, spiritual, and political conditions. Performance spaces might be at the heart of ecclesiastical, political...