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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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 387–395.
Published: 01 September 2021
... action historical analysis When the field of performance studies first emerged, it borrowed from older disciplines, like the social anthropology of Victor Turner and speech act theory of J. L. Austin, to propose something entirely new—that scholars decenter the written word and focus instead...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 121–146.
Published: 01 January 2017
...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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 261–300.
Published: 01 May 2018
... help parse the nuances of the distinctive narratives on which Juana rested her authority. In turn, contemporary terminology can aid in identifying certain subcategories within the celestial gender performances in Juana’s visions, such that analysis of trans, bigender, or genderqueer representations...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 269–291.
Published: 01 May 2020
... in Ancrene Wisse and the Katherine Group, Comitatus 26 (1995): 27 52. Sarah Salih has critiqued and extended this analysis, arguing that the virginity performed and defended by the martyrs represents a Butlerian rearticulation of the heterosexual economy, and that it can be understood as a distinct...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 633–657.
Published: 01 September 2020
... analysis of its political message and appeal. This essay reads The Whore of Babylon in this wider European diplomatic context by placing it in conversation with contemporary political and theological treatises and diplomatic communications. Dekker’s play is also read as part of a wider theatrical tradition...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (2): 317–343.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Patricia Dailey Hadewijch of Brabant's seventh vision of union with the Eucharist has often been cited as exemplifying the embodied nature of medieval women's spirituality. This essay recontextualizes the way embodiment and gender are conceived of through an analysis of the figures and functions...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 373–400.
Published: 01 May 2010
... and performative situation of Shakespeare’s speech
implies the bearer of a proper name who is the agent of such speech. In
circumstances other than those involved in literary analysis (I hesitate to
call such other situations “normal” or “serious we would attribute to the
man Shakespeare all the utterances...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 487–495.
Published: 01 September 2021
... ineffable and ephemeral even in their own era. Instead of shying away from such analysis simply because the research process is daunting, I have tried to model one way to go about addressing it. Reading between the lines for embodied performance, even in seemingly unrelated texts, serves as a blueprint...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 269–304.
Published: 01 May 2002
... martyrs
through an analysis of the Second Nun’s Tale, a text that, although not dra-
matic from a strictly formalist perspective, may nevertheless register some of
the broader cultural issues occluded in the taciturn archival records of
hagiographic drama. The Second Nun’s performance of the St...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 January 2002
... in established
canonical works (including myths) from Western literary history,” Louis
Renza points out in the above-mentioned essay on “influence.”5 Literary
influence in such studies “performed a conservative cultural function,” rein-
forcing the canon of “classics.” Even as reinterpreted through Harold...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 January 2002
...—of ideas, objects, texts, beliefs. In the twentieth century, this under-
standing of appropriation as property management surfaces in the writings
of Baudrillard, among others. In his analysis of the deployment of objects
within the modern capitalist West, Baudrillard has insisted on the way that
all...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 477–492.
Published: 01 September 2020
... analysis; his contextualization of the political climate in England and Moscow provides an important framework for understanding the ways in which diplomatic recommendation was dispensed, received, and performed. The role of the early modern diplomat is epitomized by Fletcher s embassy: English perceptions...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 323–345.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of Mount Grace Priory, both understood and valued the performative and interactive nature of her text for their own acts of readerly performance. Although other work has drawn attention to Kempe's dramatic impulses, viewing the Book itself as a remnant of performance demonstrates the importance...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 397–429.
Published: 01 September 2021
... in the way that persistent blackface performance in settings of privilege masquerades as thoughtless fun. I propose that these two phenomena reiterate the same scenario of violent abjection. To unpack this scenario's multiple layers of resonance, I begin with detailed analysis of an earlier iteration...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (2): 393–416.
Published: 01 May 2011
.... For a detailed analysis of the 1540 interlude as a direct address
to James V regarding religious matters, see Greg Walker, The Politics of Performance
in Early Renaissance Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 134 – 38.
Lindsay’s religious views are addressed in detail...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (2): 261–280.
Published: 01 May 2003
... in recent historical perspective and places some of the charac-
teristic objects of New Historicist analysis in a broad historical trajectory:
from the Middle Ages to the mid to late nineteenth century. In Hamlet in
Purgatory, Greenblatt’s announced task is to examine Shakespeare’s medieval
inheritance...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 637–668.
Published: 01 September 2024
... and social change in an exceptionally well‐documented rural community in England, the parish of Chilvers Coton (Warwickshire). In focusing on the changing occupational structure of this industrializing village, the discussion puts human flesh on the bare bones of demographic analysis and reconstructs...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 315–344.
Published: 01 May 2008
... as an object of analysis.
“Le Theatre de Neptune” was performed in the harbor outside the French
settlement of Port Royal on November 14, 1606, at the Sieur de Poutrin-
court’s return from an expedition down the Atlantic coast in search of a new
site of settlement (see fig. 1).7 Lescarbot later wrote...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 453–473.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., and gestural expression, his discussion of early medieval English performative culture informs my analysis of perambulation. 5 See Kathleen Ashley's introduction to Moving Subjects: Processional Performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance , ed. Kathleen Ashely and Wim Hüsken (Amsterdam: Rodopi...
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