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... unofficial state actors informal negotiations Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50:3, September 2020 DOI 10.1215/10829636-8626508 © 2020 by Duke University Press Afterword: Beyond the Grand Récit John Watkins University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota Traditional diplomatic historians...

... the fluidities of diplomatic thought between world and stage; the volume considers the roles of official and nonofficial state actors and how they were mediated and embodied on early modern stages.19 Drawing on the concept of double vision characterized by a simultane- ous awareness of fiction and reality...

... for articulating a powerful social critique of the state of the realm. As such, they remain seri- ous actors in the political domain, even as their platea positioning within the stage fiction gives them strong affective links to the audience.39 2 Henry VI thus remains one of the most robust and complicated...

... and social norms and structures. 8 It is curious, in the context of the East India Company especially, that scholarship on the writing of early modern English national space and studies of the English as “actors in an entangled global arena” have moved in divergent directions. 9 On one hand...

..., have sought to rehabilitate these “folkloric practices,” argu- ing for their integral role in medieval medical culture.4 Scholars primarily interested in their apotropaic dimensions have often placed these practices in an expansive lay or unofficial, or even non-­Christian, piety. Whether...

... of the Cross. Another Beverly guild, the fraternity of St. Mary, had a more elaborate and mimetic procession, with actors representing Mary, with a child in her arms, Joseph, Simeon, and two angels.15 The Chester Assumption play, eventually incorporated into the city’s Corpus Christi cycle, seems...

... government actors. What I would like to add to this account is the pointedly symbolic nature of this violence: the so- called mob used the same techniques that were once only administered by the state and they went to sometimes egregious lengths to do so. After his banishment in 1450, William de la Pole...