Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

by Pitcher, John; Cerasano, S. P.

• ISBN13: 9780838640746
• ISBN10: 0838640745
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-01
• Publisher: Associated Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(2)
Contributors	11	(8)
Symposium: Marlowe in Performance
Marlowe's Staging of Meaning	19	(18)
Leslie Thomson
Marlowe, Company Ownership, and the Role of Edward II	37	(10)
Roslyn L. Knutson
Edward Alleyn, the New Model Actor, and the Rise of the Celebrity in the 1590s	47	(14)
S. P. Cerasano
Articles
Building Playhouses, the Accession of James I, and the Red Bull	61	(14)
Herbert Berry
``Honesty and Vulgar Praise'': The Poet's War and the Literary Field	75	(29)
Edward Gieskes
``Speaking some words, but of no importance''?: Stage Directions, Thomas Heywood, and Edward IV	104	(19)
Richard Rowland
Acting on the Threshold between Onstage and Offstage Spaces	123	(23)
Mariko Ichikawa
The Protestant Context of George Peele's ``Pleasant Conceited'' Old Wives Tale	146	(20)
Frank Ardolino
``Veniance, Lord, apon thaym fall'': Maternal Mourning, Divine Justice, and Tragedy in the Corpus Christi Plays	166	(27)
Katharine Goodland
``To passe the see in shortt space'': Mapping the World in the Digby Mary Magdalen	193	(24)
D. K. Smith
Reviews
Michael Dobson and Nicola J. Watson, England's Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy	217	(3)
Martha Tuck Rozett
Jack Lynch, The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson	220	(3)
Bernice W. Kliman
Pamela Allen Brown, Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England	223	(4)
Indira Ghose
Jennifer A. Low, Manhood and the Duel: Masculinity in Early Modern Drama and Culture	227	(5)
Helen Wilcox
Michael Mangan, Staging Masculinities: History, Gender, Performance	232	(6)
Nicholas Radel
Naomi Conn Liebler, The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama	238	(5)
Barbara Hodgdon
William N. West, Theatres and Encyclopedias in Early Modern Europe	243	(4)
Ty Buckman
Nora Johnson, The Actor as Playwright in Early Modern Drama	247	(5)
Kirk Melnikoff
Jeremy Lopez, Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama	252	(5)
Alan Dessen
W. B. Worthen, Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance	257	(8)
Ric Knowles
Andrew Murphy, Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing	265	(6)
R. A. Foakes
Lukas Erne, Shakespeare as a Literary Dramatist	271	(6)
Andrew Murphy
Lukas Erne, Beyond ``The Spanish Tragedy'': A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd	277	(5)
Eric Griffin
R. A. Foakes, Shakespeare and Violence	282	(3)
Ricardo Quinones
Nicholas Marsh, Shakespeare: Three Problem Plays	285	(7)
Barbara J. Baines
Peter Holland, ed., Shakespeare Survey 55	292	(6)
Jay L. Halio
Sarah Beckwith, Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the New York Corpus Christi Plays	298	(6)
Michael A. Winkelman
Michal Kobialka, This is My Body: Representational Practices in the Early Middle Ages	304	(6)
Katie Little
Index	310