... witnessing visual theatre mental theatres early-modern culture In this chapter we move from the examination of contemporary textual evidence of early drama to consideration of a modern performance of a particular early play. It stems from a unique opportunity we shared to witness a production of the full...

...This chapter examines the conflict between traditional and early modern culture in Vietnam during the period from 1932 to 1939. Both intra- and interpersonal conflict intensified in early Vietnamese society. The tightly knit core of traditional culture perpetuated itself within the family while...

...This chapter attends both to what the theater demonstrates about disability in early modern culture and to what the performance of disability in the early modern theater makes possible on and beyond the stage. It identifies disability in moments when bodily impairment, incapacity, or variance...

..., to the dancers described in the ancient texts on pantomime. The ancient dances, brought to such a high level of artistry and skill by the ancient star performers named Pylades or Bathyllus, Hylas, or Paris, fundamentally informed, many centuries later, the nature of modern dance theatre in Early Modern culture...

... and moral values Aristotle Cicero Aquinas post-Reformation theology probability conscience confession early modern culture global Catholicism early modern theologians debated intensely the nature and implications of probabilism, so much so that definitions of probabilism are fluid...

...This chapter examines residual Catholicism in early modern culture. It considers the ways in which early-modern drama is the inheritor of the mystery plays, arguing that their Incarnational aesthetic was inherited by Shakespeare. Aylesbury Thomas Catholicism Latimer Hugh Porter Isabel Stonor...

... that claimed the authority to engage in public debate on issues of politics and culture. By drawing attention to the relationships between writers and the traditions and environments that enable textual communities, this book provides a new perspective for studying early modern culture....

... in early modern culture, from anilingus and interspecies sex to “chin-chucking” and convivial drinking, this book offers a multifaceted view of what sex looked like before the term entered history. Through incisive interpretations of a wide range of literary texts, including Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy...

... Holinshed Raphael Plutarch An Apologie of Raymond Sebond Montaigne Oxford English Dictionary Thomas Middleton Sextus scepticism Owl's Almanac Outlines of Pyrrhonism early modern culture Who would deny that birds stand out in shrewdness and have the use of expressed reasoning? They have a knowledge...

... the typical settles into the normative, enjoins us to a speculative theater history that defamiliarizes theatrical form. The chapter illustrates how inextricable are the thinking of disability and theatricality in early modern culture. comedy tragedy Davidson Michael palsy performance Shakespeare William...