... 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...

...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...

...David Schalkwyk Posing the unusual question of what Shakespeare's speech might be in relation to the texts that go under the name “William Shakespeare,” this essay puts to the question a number of assumptions in literary theory about character, subjectivity, genre, the place of the author...

... they also represent a genre of life narrative that profits from the insights of literary and feminist theory. This essay reads the rich harvest of fifteenth-century Burgundian pardon letters as collaboratively authored textual performances as it explores the relationship of these micronarratives...

... distinguisher that is consistently employed to denigrate idols and idolators. Pagan antagonists are systematically identified as nonagential and material; by contrast, the saints communicate divine truth unimpeded and resist attempts to disrupt their highly integrated performances. The category of sentience...

... 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 on the embodied actions that also...

... illustrate its relationship to philosophy, and that may prove most useful for a broader theory of ritual performance as a philosophical activity, can be grouped under two headings, action and distinction . The ritual philosophy of the eighteenth century marshalled the resources and techniques...

...: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1982); Brian Sutton-Smith, The Ambiguity of Play (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997); and Richard Schechner, Performance Theory , rev. and expanded ed. (London: Routledge, 2003). 9 Gayle S. Rubin, “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘Political...

..., and Alice Hunt; and there is a continuing movement interested in theo- rizing spaces of early modern performance and reception (as witnessed, for example, by a new Edinburgh University Press series on theory and perfor- mance in Shakespeare due to begin publishing in 2013).4 I foresee an effec- tive...

...). Modern method acting would Smith / Taking the Measure of Global Space  35 locate character inside the actor, in his psyche and body. Reader-­response theory and its near cousin performance theory would locate character in the gaps between signs, in the imaginative...

... and theory in the study of premodern Western culture. Deadline for submission of manuscripts: March 1, 2020 Performance beyond Drama Edited by Ineke Murakami and Donovan Sherman Volume 51 / Number 3 / September 2021 The field of performance studies has inspired critical reevaluations of drama as an embodied...

...- focused studies? We invite submissions that address these inquiries. Of particular interest are essays in dialogue with nonliterary disciplines, such as social anthropology, speech act theory, cognitive theory, and theorizations of political activism and performativity. The volume aims to take performance...

...Julia Reinhard Lupton This essay uses the concept of affordances, borrowed from design theory and environmental psychology, in order to map the use of space in act 1, scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet . Hospitality provides a socio-symbolic script for objects and persons in action that crosses theatrical...

... 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...

... relations theory, the essays address the ambiguous and contradictory elements of diplomatic reciprocity, explicating the tensions between diplomatic ambition and local governance. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50:3, September 2020 DOI 10.1215/10829636-8626064 © 2020 by Duke University Press...

... the Baptist in Byzantium and the West, Gesta 46, no. 2 (2007): 159 77; Jill Stevenson, Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture: Sensual Piety in Late Medieval York (New York: Palgrave Mac- millan, 2010), 79 86; Barbara Baert, Caput Johannis in Disco (Essay on a Man s Head) (Boston: Brill...

..., the representation of pictorial images, and theatrical performance—a list of artifacts and theories that is not intended to be exhaustive or even exemplary, but instead aims to offer a representative sampling. My purpose in presenting these examples is to suggest what focusing on the processes of appropriation...

... above human nature and the sinful body, both associated with femininity. In recent years modern scholars have developed their own vocabu- lary of the “performative” for the transformations, gendered and otherwise, that ascetic and other practices produce. Drawing on theories...

... Middle Ages, before the revival of interest in Classical Greek literary theory, I believe we can gain by recognizing the enduring imprint of paradigmatic classical forms on later Christian narratives. The authors of the first three Old English poems in the tenth-century manuscript called the Exeter Book...

... engage with the social dimensions of Corpus Christi theol- ogy as they interrogate, examine, and enact the relations between Christ’s body and the body of York’s citizens, both rich and poor.4 Performed by trade guilds, the drama itself can be understood as a theater of community not only produced...