Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England articles from January 1 2007

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England archives from January 1 2007

Foreword.
January 1, 2007... The publication of volume 20 of Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England features a forum concerning issues of race, racism, and performance on the early modern stage. Following this are articles addressing madness and hagiography in Hamlet...

Racial impersonation on the Elizabethan stage: the case of Shakespeare playing Aaron.(Forum: Race, Racism, and Performance on the Early Modern Stage)
January 1, 2007... I IF racial construction is a clairvoyant performance, the creation of a virtual human reality from another psychic realm, its greatest provenance will be in the theater. Acting, as the production of virtual persons, is predicated on...

The folly of racism: enslaving blackface and the "natural" fool tradition.(Forum: Race, Racism, and Performance on the Early Modern Stage)
January 1, 2007... IN April 1566, signs of strain appeared in the relationship between Elizabeth I and her longtime visitor, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, when, after an extended visit in England, the Swedish princess abruptly left the country to rejoin her...

Moorish dancing in the Two Noble Kinsmen.(Forum: Race, Racism, and Performance on the Early Modern Stage)
January 1, 2007... IN Shakespeare and Fletcher's The Two Noble Kinsmen, Gerald, a pedantic schoolmaster, badgers a dozen reluctant countrymen and women (including the crazed Jailer's Daughter as the Madwoman and a "bavian" or baboon, "with long tail and eke long...

Ophelia's "old lauds": madness and hagiography in Hamlet.(Articles)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... RECENT scholarship on Hamlet has established the degree to which this play raises questions about early modern religion. Of course, the presence of a ghost seemingly straight out of purgatory has always put the play's theological cards on the...

'"Now wole I a newe game begynne": staging suffering in King Lear, the mystery plays and Grotius's Christus Patiens.(Articles)(Hugo Grotius)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... THE mystery plays put the Passion at the heart of their drama and their concept of dramaturgy. They did not flinch from staging pain and death, and showed the persecutors of Christ reveling in violence and performing tortures as elaborate...

Curtains on the Shakespearean stage.(Articles)(Elizabethan dramas)
January 1, 2007... ALTHOUGH the only surviving drawing of a theatrical interior contemporaneous with Shakespeare (Johannes De Witt's sketch of the Swan) shows an unadorned theater, we know that textiles not only decorated the stages but also figured in the action...

Imagining the actor's body on the early modern stage.(Articles)(Essay)
January 1, 2007... THIS essay is a prolegomenon to a larger study of the relationship between casting, dramaturgy, and theatrical rhetoric on the early modern stage. The last decade or so has seen an increased interest in the importance of the acting company...

"Ick verstaw you niet": performing foreign tongues on the early modern English stage.(Articles)
January 1, 2007... Gentlemen, this play of Hieronimo in sundrie Languages, was thought Good to be set downe in English more largely, for the easier understanding to euery publicque Reader. --The Spanish tragedie... (1592) IN his Defense...

The succession of sots, or fools and their fathers.(Notes and Documents)
January 1, 2007... ONE of the jolly little tales told in the second part of Tarltons Jests (entered in the Stationers' Register in 1600) is "How Tarlton made Armin his adopted sonne to succeed him" (C2r, 1638 edition). Apocryphal as this short anecdote may...

An early seventeenth-century playhouse in Tonbridge, Kent.(Notes and Documents)(Edward Calverley's death)(Case overview)
January 1, 2007... ON June 26, 1610, Edward Calverley received a fatal stab wound in the head during a fray in "a certain house called a playhouse" in Tonbridge. (1) After Calverley died some weeks later, an inquest convened by coroner George Pattenden on...

This strange, eventful history ...(Shakespeare's Serial History Plays, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Shakespeare's Serial History Plays, by Nicholas Grene. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii + 278. Cloth $80.00. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays, edited by Michael Hattaway. Cambridge: Cambridge...

Drugs, medicine, and the early modern stage.(Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England; Beyond the Body: The Boundaries of Medicine and English Renaissance Drama)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England, by Tanya Pollard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. X + 211. Cloth $74.00. Beyond the Body: The Boundaries of Medicine and English Renaissance Drama, by William Kerwin. Amherst and Boston:...

Racism, Misogyny, and the "Othello" Myth: Inter-racial Couples from Shakespeare to Spike Lee.
January 1, 2007... Racism, Misogyny, and the "Othello" Myth: Inter-racial Couples from Shakespeare to Spike Lee, by Celia R. Daileader. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. ix + 253. Cloth $70.00; Paper $25.99. In this book, Celia Daileader has...

Masculinity, Anti-Semitism and Early Modern English Literature: From the Satanic to the Effeminate Jew.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Masculinity, Anti-Semitism and Early Modern English Literature: From the Satanic to the Effeminate Jew, by Matthew Biberman. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xii + 260. Hardcover $89.95. Matthew Biberman's book on masculinity and anti-Semitism...

Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800, by Virginia Mason Vaughan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv + 190. Cloth $75.00. When I teach about blackface conventions in my undergraduate Shakespeare classes, I...

The Early Modern Corpse and Shakespeare's Theatre.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Early Modern Corpse and Shakespeare's Theatre, by Susan Zimmerman. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. Pp. viii + 216. Cloth $80.00. Susan Zimmerman's Early Modern Corpse is a wonderful paradox: steeped in the contemplation of...

Shakespeare's Violated Bodies: Stage and Screen Performance.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Shakespeare's Violated Bodies: Stage and Screen Performance, by Pascale Aebischer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii + 221. Cloth $75.00. Shakespeare's Violated Bodies: Stage and Screen Performance begins with a...

Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage, by Gail Kern Paster. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xiii + 274. Cloth: $35.00. The emotions--those seemingly most transhistorical of objects--undergo a thoroughgoing...