Early Modern Theatricality

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199641352.001.0001

Early Modern Theatricality

Edited by Henry S. Turner

Abstract

The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate. Following the models established by previous volumes in the series, Early Modern Theatricality launches a new generation of scholarship on early modern drama by focusing on the rich formal capacities of theatrical performance. The collection gathers some of the most innovative critics in the field to examine the techniques, objects, bodies, and conventions that characterized early modern theatricality, from the Tudor period to the Restoration. Taking their cues from a series of guiding keywords, the contributors identify the fundamental features of theatricality in the period, using them to launch conceptually adventurous arguments that provoke our rediscovery of early modern drama in all its complexity and inventiveness.

Keywords: early modern theatre, theatricality, performance, stage, interiority, off-stage, mobility, time, drama, generalization

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Dec 2013

ISBN:: 9780199641352

Published online:: Jun 2017

DOI:: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199641352.001.0001

Editor

Henry S. Turner, editor
Henry S. Turner is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is the author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580–1630 (Oxford, 2006), Shakespeare’s Double Helix (Continuum, 2008), and editor of The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2002).

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Front Matter
- Early Modern Theatricality: Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature
- List of Illustrations
- list of Abbreviations
- Notes On Contributors
GeneralizationHenry S. Turner
StageLaura Weigert
InteriorityRichard Preiss
Off-stagePeter Womack
SceneBruce R. Smith
LinesPaul Menzer
SourceStephen Guy-Bray
IntertheatricalityWilliam N. West
SkillEvelyn Tribble
GamesBloom Gina
FestivityErika T. Lin
OccasionScott A. Trudell
OpticsMary Thomas Crane
EkphrasisJoel Altman
Dumb showJeremy Lopez
IndecorumEllen MacKay
DesireMadhavi Menon
FormactionPalfrey Simon
NowScott Maisano
EventualityMichael Witmore
DuelPaul A. Kottman
HospitalityJulia Reinhard Lupton
Becoming-IndianJonathan Gil Harris
PoorRobert Henke
ForeignSusanne Wofford
MobilityAnston Bosman
HonestasPhil Withington
ReadingAnn Baynes Coiro
PassionsBlair Hoxby
End Matter
- Index of Plays
- General Index

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