Early Modern Theatricality

Edited by Henry S. Turner

Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature

Provides a comprehensive introduction to new work in the field
Joins historical, formal, and philosophical approaches
Considers diverse topics within the subject area

Early Modern Theatricality

Edited by Henry S. Turner

Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature

Description

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.

Early Modern Theatricality

Edited by Henry S. Turner

Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1:Generalization, Henry S. Turner
2:Stages, Laura Weigert
3:Interiority, Richard Preiss
4:Offstage, Peter Womack
5:Scenes, Bruce Smith
6:Lines, Paul Menzer
7:Sources, Stephen Guy-Bray
8:Intertheatricality, William West
9:Skill, Evelyn Tribble
10:Games, Gina Bloom
11:Festivity, Erika Lin
12:Occasion, Scott Trudell
13:Optics, Mary Thomas Crane
14:Ekphrasis, Joel Altman
15:Dumbshow, Jeremy Lopez
16:Indecorum, Ellen MacKay
17:Desire, Madhavi Menon
18:Formaction, Simon Palfrey
19:Now, Scott Maisano
20:Eventuality, Michael Witmore
21:Duel, Paul Kottman
22:Hospitality, Julia Reinhard Lupton
23:Becoming-Indian, Jonathan Gil Harris
24:Poor, Robert Henke
25:Foreign, Susanne Wofford
26:Mobility, Anston Bosman
27:Honestas, Phil Withington
28:Reading, Ann Baynes Coiro
29:Passions, Blair Hoxby
Index of Plays
General Index

Early Modern Theatricality

Edited by Henry S. Turner

Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature

Author Information

Edited by Henry S. Turner, Rutgers University

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), the editor of The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2002), and co-editor of the book series "Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity " at Ashgate Press. His essays have appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Renaissance Drama, Configurations, Isis, South Central Review, differences, and postmedieval. His work has been supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Contributors:

Henry S. Turner
Laura Weigert
Richard Preiss
Peter Womack
Bruce Smith
Paul Menzer
Stephen Guy-Bray
William West
Evelyn Tribble
Gina Bloom
Erika Lin
Scott Trudell
Mary Thomas Crane
Joel Altman
Jeremy Lopez
Ellen MacKay
Madhavi Menon
Simon Palfrey
Scott Maisano
Michael Witmore
Paul Kottman
Julia Reinhard Lupton
Jonathan Gil Harris
Robert Henke
Susanne Wofford
Anston Bosman
Phil Withington
Ann Baynes Coiro
Blair Hoxby

Early Modern Theatricality

Edited by Henry S. Turner

Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature

Reviews and Awards

"a nuanced state-of-the-field publication, but also — and more importantly — as a map of where we might go next if we're willing to put the tools of theater history, performance studies, and critical theory into conversation ... Early Modern Theatricality advances a form of critical inquiry that is both historically meticulous and theoretically sophisticated." - Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

Early Modern Theatricality

Edited by Henry S. Turner

Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature

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