...Julie Paulson © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 a A Theater of the Soul’s Interior: Contemplative Literature and Penitential Education...

...Tom Bishop In Shakespearean drama, the conception of acting as “play” was shaped by an inheritance of medieval “player” routines and strategies and by the environment of the professional Elizabethan theater. Arguing from a theoretical and practical discussion of the role of “play” in medieval drama...

... by Duke University Press 2013 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. a Experiencing the Space and Place of Early Modern Theater...

... the built environment of the 1599 Globe Theater, we discover not one measure of space but ten: (1) geographical, (2) temporal, (3) fictional, (4) characterological, (5) social, (6) political, (7) interpersonal, (8) performative, (9) receptive, and (10) phenomenal. The confluence of the ten measures of space...

... into dialogue with their early modern counterparts. This special issue focuses the conversation at an especially rich point, that of Shakespearean theater. These essays explore “premodern Shakespeare”: how Shakespeare's drama addresses and expresses the cultural revolution of the relatively recent past, and how...

... imagination intervenes in and provides an alternative to English nation-making, while it fractures the collective effects of theater. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 a “All Places Are Alike”: Marlowe’s Edward II...

.... Indeed, analyses of the Kristevan abject have overlooked its inherent performativity, specifically its dependence on both sensory perception and on acts of veiling and unveiling. Thus the theater — specifically the convention of the curtained discovery space as the locus for staging the “obscene...

...Sarah Beckwith This article explores the virtue tradition in the English theatrical tradition of morality theater and its fortunes on the professional stage. It explores questions of recognition in allegorical drama by examining “mankind” and “mercy” in the morality play Mankind , the appropriation...

... of the periphery, situated on Arden’s fringe between the locative or carefully emplaced world of France and the utopian wilderness of the forest, is the transvestite figure of Rosalind. She and her dwelling place also stand for the larger space of the theater in its heterotopic function as a site that reimagines...

... that was involving at the same time artistic forms from painting to theater and extended to protoscientific explorations. Art, literature, and science moved from theoretical discussions often grounded on faith to revolutionary ways of focusing on visuality and the self. There was no turning back; the following...

... in early modern politics has long been recognized in connection to the theater and theatricality, St. German's work demonstrates that early print also invoked the bodily interactivity and iterability characteristic of performance in order to script readers’ use of the relatively new medium. St. German's...

... the recovery of ephemeral audience affect. Studying spectators’ emotions is notoriously challenging but can productively complicate concepts such as character and narrative. Moreover, it was through amorphous feelings and sensations that theater actively produced cultural understandings. Expanding...

...Ineke Murakami; Donovan Sherman The field of performance studies has invigorated premodern scholarship by directing critical attention to live, ephemeral events that unsettle the textual archive. This special issue of JMEMS builds on this work by stepping away from the usual emphasis on theater...

... the obligations of caritas and the possibilities of drama, Shakespeare questions what it entails to meaningfully respond to the suffering of another, and what tools — if any — theater might offer this project. [email protected] © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Shakespeare King Lear human...

..., and the ritual of the Mass, Marlowe’s play reveals the early modern theater as a venue for “contested rites” where liturgical and theological debates could be waged. The essay establishes connections between magic and the Mass by analyzing the “affective textuality” and liturgical rubrics in both necromantic...

... will replace the dogmatic truism; theater will replace religion even as figure, psyche, and theater are all haunted by the stubborn leavings of an outmoded religion, appearing in the form of a histrionic, apparently Catholic, paternal ghost, reminder and remainder of a usurped, truncated, and thoroughly...

... to their spectators, and eventually to readers, too. As an instrument, one instrument, of theater, writing also provides both a verbal texture and a set of activities to undertake within a specific social and theatrical tekhnē : to take the mask, compete for the prize, say “I am Oedipus”; to slide into, and out...

... had either an entire hand, or at the least a maine finger.”1 Heywood’s claim asserts both his individual productivity after nearly forty years of working for the public theater as well as his capacity to work with other writers, and its suggestive richness has been tapped by scholars to sup- port...

... JMEMS 43:1, 07 Lupton 10.1215/10829636-1902576 In theater and in life, holiday often sets the stage for hospitality, in the form JMEMS 43:1, 08 Kok 10.1215/10829636-1902585 of seasonal festivities and life-­cycle events that respond to ecological and JMEMS 43:1, 09 Cornett 10.1215/10829636-1902672...

... to conform with postmedieval political and religious projects, thereby obscuring or blurring the evidence for those earlier practices. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 medieval and early modern English theater and spectacle performance analysis archival documents historical...