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

by Reynolds, Bryan

• ISBN13: 9781403932112
• ISBN10: 1403932115
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries further develops the pioneering critical theory, methodology and aesthetics of "transversal poetics" as it progresses beyond both traditional parameters for analysis of early modern English literature and culture and recent trends in literary, theater, and performance studies to offer new readings of plays by Shakespeare, Peele, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, Dekker, Rowley, Webster, and Greene. To elucidate their theoretical and historical claims about hermeneutics, phenomenology, theology, consciousness, subjectivity, social identity, theatre and performance, Reynolds and his collaborators move "investigative-expansively" across a broad range of typically separated fields within and outside of the humanities while giving critical attention to topics that are often marginalized within the fields.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
Acknowledgments	x
Transversal Poetics and Fugitive Explorations: Theaterspace, Paused Consciousness, Subjunctivity, and Macbeth	1	(26)
Bryan Reynolds
The Reckoning of Moll Cutpurse: Transversal Reimaginings of The Roaring Girl	27	(37)
Bryan Reynolds
Janna Segal
The Delusion of Critique: Subjunctive Space, Transversality, and the Conceit of Deceit in Hamlet	64	(21)
Anthony Kubiak
Bryan Reynolds
Comedic Law: Projective Transversality, Deceit Conceits, and the Conjuring of Macbeth and Doctor Faustus in Jonson's The Devil is an Ass	85	(27)
Amy Cook
Bryan Reynolds
I Might Like You Better If We Slept Together: the Historical Drift of Place in The Changeling	112	(12)
Donald Hedrick
Bryan Reynolds
Fugitive Explorations in Romeo and Juliet: Searching for Transversality inside the Goldmine of R&Jspace	124	(44)
Bryan Reynolds
Janna Segal
Viewing Antitheatricality: or, Tamburlaine's Post-Theater	168	(15)
Bryan Reynolds
Ayanna Thompson
Becomings Roman/Comings-to-be Villain: Pressurized Belongings and the Coding of Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationality in Peele & Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus	183	(44)
Glenn Odom
Bryan Reynolds
Awakening the Werewolf Within: Self-help, Vanishing Mediation, and Transversality in The Duchess of Malfi	227	(13)
Courtney Lehmann
Bryan Reynolds
Performative Transversations: Collaborations Through and Beyond Greene's	240	(11)
Friar Bacon
Friar Bungay Bryan Reynolds
Henry Turner
Afterword: Re: connaissance	251	(6)
Bruce Smith
A Very Short List of Writings Significant to the Development of Transversal Poetics	257	(3)
Notes on the Collaborators	260	(3)
Index	263