...Heather Henderson Copyright © THEATER 1988 1988 RE-CREATING DEKKER’S AESTHETICS OF MIRTH HEATHER HENDERSON he Shoemaker’s Holiday (c.1598), barely disturbing...

... circa 1569. practices. Standing between them, Dillon Thomas Dekker: “The Theater is your Poets argues, reflecting and provoking them both Royal Exchange upon which, their Muses (that as in a two-faced hyperbolic mirror, were the are now...

... at the The Merchant of Venice, and As You Like It- heart of male cross-dressing cannot be simply and, most interestingly, at Middleton and declared ‘celebratory’ or ‘misogynist’ without Dekker’s groundbreaking The Roaring Girl. accounting for the role of race, class, sexuality...

... in order to gain presence and claim focus Case has written several original scripts, including Drag Dolls, a on the stage (for which little acting pedagogy exists). Bernhard com- work-in-progress. In Middleton and Dekker’s The Roaring Girl, which plains that women consistently “phone in their parts...

...! Dekker/Rowley, and compare Sam Shepard/Rosalyn Drexler/Rochelle Owens/Lanford Wilson/Tom Eyen. The No it isn't, and it should have been, and possibility exists, and there is a formid...

... rule. Attention to artistic process and innova- invites the best theater directors-Flimm, tion seems to be banished from most of the Descoufle, Dario Fo, Kupfer, Dekker, Wilson, large opera houses and opera festivals, which to name just a few...

.../Marston/Middleton/ Theatre! Dekker/Rowley, and compare Sam Shepard/Rosalyn Drexler/Rochelle OwendLanford WilsonITom Eyen. The No it isn't, and it should...

... present lived instances of disability onstage, for example the returning lame veteran Ralph in Thomas Dekker s Shoemaker s Holiday, to elicit charity and pity from the audience regarding the soldiers who risked life and limb for their country. The inverse is also true: able-b­ odied actors might present...