...Robert D. Hume Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe . By Julie Stone Peters. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xii+ 494 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Tradition and the Individual Poem: An Inquiry into Anthologies. By Anne...

...Michal Kobialka The “after theory” syndrome silently renounced historiography as radical thought and substituted a closed, retrospective framework to conceptualize the ontology of theater/performance history. In its postmodern/post-utopian universe, historicizing largely contents itself...

...Julie Stone Peters This essay attempts to offer a thick history of the turn-of-the-century ritual idea while identifying its relationship to a nexus of formations crucial to ideas about drama and to a variety of performance practices in the twentieth century. In the 1890s works on myth and ritual...

... developments have come to the fore. It also claims that reimagining theater as a form of performance pedagogy is an important step for scholars in the field to take. Ultimately, this essay reveals not merely that Mexican politics are theatrical, or that the theater has served the Mexican state...

... Machines: Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production (1997) and the journal Renaissance Drama. He is at work on a project titled Spelling Shakespeare and Other Essays in Queer Philology . Material Cavendish: Paper, Performance, “Sociable Virginity” Jeffrey Masten MY Lord...

... poets as John Ashbery, Susan Howe, Tom Raworth, and Rosmarie Waldrop. University of Washington 2007 Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry . By Peter Middleton. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. xviii + 241 pp. Reviews Dice...

...Timothy D. O'Brien Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 TROUBLING WATERS: THE FEMININE AND THE WIFE OF BATH’S PERFORMANCE By TIMOTHYD. O’BRIEN Chaucer’s construction of the Wife of Bath’s performance depends...

...Andrew Elfenbein Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Byro&m and the Work of Homosed Performance in Early Victorian England Andrew Elfenbein ve Kosofsky Sedgwick has argued that “issues of modern homo/ heterosexual definition are structured...

... and literature he has published Negation, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Textuality (1994) and has a forthcoming edition of James VI (I)'s political works, The True Law of Free Monarchies and Basilikon Doron . “Tis Like I Cannot Tell What”: Desire, Indeterminacy, and Erotic Performance...

...Laurence E. Gemeinhardt Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 THE CAST OF THE FIRST HAMBURG PERFORMANCE OF GOTTER’S “JAHRMARKT” By LAURENCEE. GEMEINHARDT Dr. Curt von Faber du Faur’s extensive collection of first editions of works...

...Ambereen Dadabhoy [email protected] Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race . By Noémie Ndiaye . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2022 . 358 pp. Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 When scholars...

...Joseph Roach Performance and memory share a practice of disguise best described by the word surrogation . Surrogation occurs when more or less plausible substitutes appear in place of the dead, the fugitive, or the banished. Properly disguised, persons can even stand in as surrogates for themselves...

...Ellen R. Welch This essay examines the role of performance practices in the making of colonial history through an analysis of the first French-language theater piece staged in the New World, Marc Lescarbot's Théâtre de Neptune (1606). The form of performance in this work offers a radically...

...Angela Sorby Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Performing Class: James Whitcomb Riley’s Poetry of Distinction Angela Sorby In 1889 the poet James Whitcomb Riley and the prose humorist Bill Nye appeared at Boston’s Tremont Temple in a show sponsored...

... modification. In this way Wiggins’s assiduous brand of literary criticism acquires ethical urgency. As he beautifully formulates it, given the temporal nature of intersubjective, performative relations, any conclusion “is never fully commensurate with or explanatory of the living complexity of another human...

...Daniel H. Foster This essay focuses on how aural and visual media intersected with class when, in 1843, blackface performers began to call themselves minstrels. Not merely a rebaptism, this new name marked a rebirth. Whereas blackface was originally a working-class theatrical experience passed...

...Peggy Phelan Proceeding from a reading of Herbert Blau's “Universals of Performance” and his work on Beckett, Phelan offers an appreciation of Blau's dedication to performance, as fact, as theme, and as manifestation of love's everyday ado. © 2009 by University of Washington 2009 Peggy...

... unchanged by their movement. The protagonists of the Japanese writer Kosugi Tengai's New Year's Finery and the American Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (both 1900) show Zola's character reduced to a cluster of minimal qualities: performance, mobility, and contagion. Paradoxically, flattening the Nana...

...Robert D. Hume Some 250 English comedies are set in London between circa 1600 and 1737. Three clichés about them remain current. First, “Jacobean city comedy” performs serious sociopolitical work. Second, the social level of the protagonists rises in the “comedy of wit” or “comedy of manners...