Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Fugitive Explorations

by Reynolds, Bryan

• ISBN13: 9780230213128
• ISBN10: 023021312X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This study expands on Reynolds' " transversal poetics" -- the theory, methodology, and aesthetics developed in response to the need for an approach that fosters agency, creativity and conscientious scholarship and pedagogy. It offers new readings of plays by, amongst others, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, Webster and Greene.

Author Biography

BRYAN REYNOLDS is Professor and Head of Doctoral Studies in Drama at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He is the author of Performing Transversally: Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future (2003), Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England (2002), and co-editor of Rematerializing Shakespeare: Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage (2005) and Shakespeare Without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital (2000).

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Transversal Poetics and Fugitive Explorations: Theaterspace, Paused Consciousness, Subjunctivity, and Macbeth

The Reckoning of Moll Cutpurse: Transversal Reimaginings of The Roaring Girl

The Delusion of Critique: Subjunctive Space, Transversality, and the Conceit of Deceit in Hamlet

Comedic Law: Projective Transversality, Deceit Conceits, and the Conjuring of Macbeth and Doctor Faustus in Jonson's The Devil is an Ass

I Might Like You Better if We Slept Together: The Historical Drift of Place in The Changeling

Fugitive Explorations in Romeo and Juliet : Searching for Transversality inside the Goldmine of RJspace

Viewing Antitheatricality: or, Tamburlaine's Post-Theatrics

Becomings Roman/Comings-to-be Villain: Pressurized Belongings and the Coding of Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationality in Peele and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus

Awakening the Werewolf Within: Self-help, Vanishing Mediation, and Transversality in The Duchess of Malfi

Performative Transversations: Collaborations Through and Beyond Green's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay

Afterword: Re: conaissance; B.Smith A Very Short List of Writings Significant to the Developmental of Transversal Poetics Notes on the Collaborators

Index

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