...Sarah Beckwith; James Simpson The deepest periodic division in English literary history is between the “medieval” and the “early modern,” not least because the cultural investments in maintaining that division are exceptionally powerful. Narratives of national and religious identity and freedom...

... between medieval and early modern studies that continues to be intrinsic to departments of the humanities despite increasing acknowledgment of the distortions of cultural histories created by such institutionalization. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 medieval and early modern drama...

... and histories on the pages of medieval drama texts, uses and histories that raise crucial questions about the porous borders between medieval and early modern, about these manuscripts as sites of ongoing contests about past and pres- ent religious devotion and orthodoxy, and especially about...

...-­textual drama. In addition to this illustrated T, both the Sarum and Roman Mis- sals contain red or blue blessing crosses that signal to the priest the places at 342  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 43.2 / 2013 Figure 1. Historiated initial “T” of  Te igitur. Missale...

... modern” in English drama studies. This essay examines the Ches- ter cycle’s transformation from medieval to early modern drama in light of the instabilities and complexities of sixteenth-century religious culture, pay- ing particular attention to constraints on interpretation posed by these insta...

... the medieval and early modern periods, and other medievalists have been making the case in significant ways.8 Richard K. Emmerson has recently argued not only for such continuity in the dramatic culture of the medieval–­early modern world, but also for the (frustrating) necessity for medieval drama...

..., 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...

...- Chambers era, important studies of early drama might have been expected to share Hardison’s disdain for “the apostles of fact” (CR 17), maybe even to Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 40:1, Winter 2010 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2009-012  © 2010 by Duke University Press...

... this serve? Not that of Lollards, who were iconoclasts and fervently opposed to the drama, to whom the Play of the Sacrament would have been just about as objectionable as even their aversion allowed. 292 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 33.2 / 2003 Nor easily, I shall argue...

...: 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...

... political and religious institutions is, I would argue, a “dramatic” feature of the Second Nun’s Tale—a consequence of the fiction of perfor- 292 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 32.2 / 2002 mance that locates the tale explicitly in the context of late medieval social life. Like drama...

... pp. $55.00. Forman, Valerie. Tragicomic Redemptions: Global Economics and the Early Modern English Stage. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 279 pp. $59.95. Granger, Penny. The N-Town Play: Drama and Liturgy in Medieval East Anglia. Westfield Medieval Studies, vol. 2...

... Drama,” in John D. Cox and David Scott 84  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 40.1 / 2010 Kastan, eds., A New History of Early English Drama (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), 321 – 35. 4 The earliest occurrence of actor for a theater professional cited in OED...

... and strange.6 Nonetheless, for late medieval and early modern men and women, olfaction was a key component of everyday life, including drama. Analyz- ing representations of scent as a dramatic trope within two distinct theat- rical atmospheres — late medieval civic drama and early modern profes...

... or, to invoke Austin's famous example, while exchanging vows in a marriage ceremony. 1 In medieval and early modern studies, this approach has inspired critical reevaluations of drama as a tangible, as much as textual, medium. However, apart from a few dazzling exceptions, premodern scholarship has yet...

... 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...

... life 9. Visual culture 10. Drama and the stage Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 41:2, Spring 2011 DOI 10.1215/10829636-1218376  © 2011 by Duke University Press 1. Editions and translations Delanty, Greg, and Michael Matto, ed. and trans...

.... Haseldine, Julian, ed. Friendship in Medieval Europe. Phoenix Mill, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1999. xxiii, 287 pp. $81.00. Helgerson, Richard. Adulterous Alliances: Home, State, and History in Early Modern European Drama and Painting. Chicago: University of Chicago...

... Early Modern Drama: Beyond Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xi, 274 pp.; 20 illus. $99.00. Atkin, Tamara. The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461 – 1553. Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 23. Turnhout, Belg.: Brepols, 2013. x, 198 pp. eur 70.00...

... (1979; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), esp. 247  –  348. 126  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.1 / 2012 13 See Paula Neuss, “Active and Idle Language: Dramatic Images in Mankind,” in Medi- eval Drama, ed. Neville Denny (London: Edward Arnold, 1973), 40  –  67...