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Staging The Renaissance Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
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Routledge
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First published in 1992. In the English Renaissance theater, the text is structured by the multiple and complex collaborations that the theater demanded between patrons and players, playwrights and printers, playhouses and playgoers. The essays in this volume attempt to register these collaborations, emphasizing the ways in which the theater is at once responsive to and constitutive of the social formations of Renaissance England. At the same time, these essays recognize that their historical grounding is not unproblematic.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Staging the Renaissance, David Scott Kastan, Peter Stallybrass; Part I The Conditions of Playing; Chapter 2 Civic Rites, City Sites: The Place of the Stage, Steven Mullaney; Chapter 3 Playing and Power, Leonard Tennenhouse; Chapter 4 Censorship and Interpretation, Annabel Patterson; Chapter 5 The Theater of the Idols: Theatrical and Anti-theatrical Discourse, Jonathan V. Crewe; Chapter 6 Boy Actors, Female Roles, and Elizabethan Eroticism, Lisa Jardine; Chapter 7 Women as Spectators, Spectacles, and Paying Customers, Jean E. Howard; Chapter 8 Sodomy and Society: The Case of Christopher Marlowe, Jonathan Goldberg; Chapter 9 What is a Text?, Stephen Orgel; Chapter 10 “The very names of the Persons”: Editing and the Invention of Dramatick Character, Random Cloud; Part II The Plays; Chapter 11 “Tragedies naturally performed”: Kyd’s Representation of Violence, James Shapiro; Chapter 12 The Will to Absolute Play, Stephen J. Greenblatt; Chapter 13 Subversion through Transgression, Jonathan Dollimore; Chapter 14 Alice Arden’s Crime, Catherine Belsey; Chapter 15 Workshop and/as Playhouse, David Scott Kastan; Chapter 16 Ben Jonson and the Publicke Riot, Peggy Knapp; Chapter 17 City Talk: Women and Commodification, Karen Newman; Chapter 18 Pastimes and the Purging of Theater, Leah S. Marcus; Chapter 19 Reading the Body and the Jacobean Theater of Consumption, Peter Stallybrass; Chapter 20 The Logic of the Transvestite, Marjorie Garber; Chapter 21 The Spectre of Resistance, Margaret W. Ferguson; Chapter 22 Italians and Others, Ann Rosalind Jones; Chapter 23 Incest and Ideology, Frank Whigham; Chapter 24 Beatrice-Joanna and the Rhetoric of Love, Sara Eaton;
Biography
David Scott Kastan, Peter Stallybrass
