Table of Contents
List of Illustrations x
Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xviii
Introduction 1Arthur F. Kinney and Thomas Warren Hopper
Part I Context 9
1 The Politics of Renaissance England 11Norman Jones
2 Continental Influences 21Lawrence F. Rhu
3 Medieval and Reformation Roots 35Raphael Falco
4 Popular Culture and the Early Modern Stage 51Sophie Chiari and Francois Laroque
5 Multiculturalism and Early Modern Drama 65Scott Oldenburg
6 London and Westminster 75Ian W. Archer
7 Travel and Trade 88William H. Sherman
8 The Theater and the Early Modern Culture of Debt 98Amanda Bailey
9 Vagrancy 112William C. Carroll
10 Domestic Life 125Martin Ingram
11 Religious Persuasions, c.1580–c.1620 143Lori Anne Ferrell
12 Science, Natural Philosophy, and New Philosophy in Early Modern England 154Barbara H. Traister
13 Magic and Witchcraft 170Deborah Willis
14 Antitheatricality: The Theater as Scourge 182Leah S. Marcus
Part II Theater History 193
15 Performance: Audiences, Actors, Stage Business 195S. P. Cerasano
16 Playhouses 211David Kathman
17 Theatrical License and Censorship 225Richard Dutton
18 Playing Companies and Repertory 239Roslyn L. Knutson
19 Rehearsal and Acting Practice 250Don Weingust
20 Boy Companies and Private Theaters 268Michael Shapiro
21 Women’s Involvement in Theatrical Production 282Natasha Korda
22 “To travayle amongst our frendes”: Touring 296Peter H. Greenfield
23 Progresses and Court Entertainments 309R. Malcolm Smuts
24 “What revels are in hand?” Performances in the Great Households 322Suzanne Westfall
25 Civic Drama 337Lawrence Manley
Part III Genres 355
26 Masque 357David Lindley
27 The History Play: Shakespeare and Beyond 371Brian Walsh
28 Domestic Tragedy: Private Life on the Public Stage 388Lena Cowen Orlin
29 Revenge Tragedy 403Marissa Greenberg
30 Romance and Tragicomedy 417Jane Hwang Degenhardt and Cyrus Mulready
Part IV Critical Approaches 441
31 Sexuality and Queerness on the Early Modern Stage 443Valerie Billing
32 Gendering the Stage 456Alison Findlay
33 Race and Early Modern Drama 474Mary Floyd-Wilson
34 Staging Disability in Renaissance Drama 487David Houston Wood
35 Space and Place 501Adam Zucker
36 The Matter of Wit and the Early Modern Stage 513Ian Munro
37 Materialisms 529Elizabeth Williamson
Part V Playwrights, Publishers, and Textual Studies 543
38 The Transmission of an English Renaissance Play-Text 545Grace Ioppolo
39 Publishers of Drama 560Tara L. Lyons
40 Sidney, Cary, Cavendish: Playwrights of the Printed Page and a Future Stage 576Lara Dodds and Margaret Ferguson
41 Nonprofessional Playwrights 598Matteo Pangallo
Index 612