... counterpoint in what could be termed Cornelian fausse-pistisme. Corneille early modern theatre tragedy Polyeucte seventeenth century drama theory characterization fiction In Pierre Corneille’sPolyeucte (1643), the character of Sévère was particularly appreciated...

... Madhavi mimesis Muñoz José Esteban transformation Davis Lennard J labor Menzer Paul Bérubé Michael prosthesis stage property States Bert O unfixing early modern theatre Jeremy Collier disabling theatrical form disability early modern culture Because for theater one thing is as good...

...This chapter examines the historical intersections between theatre and games in order to understand the formal dimensions of spectatorship within the specific institution of the early modern theatre and the dramas staged within it. It considers how early modern card and board games would have...

...This chapter locates festivity within the early modern theatre. Through an analysis of Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday, it considers how holidays functioned not as communal rituals but as commodified entertainments; how one-off experiences tied to the cyclical rhythms...

...This chapter examines one of the most problematic aspects of early modern theatre: its vexed relation to sight, seeing, spectacle, and illusion. It considers whether theatre offered the audience a version of the truth or a deceptive illusion, or whether it offered an illusion that had no effect...

...This chapter examines the use of ekphrasis in early modern theatre, with particular emphasis on its effect on the stage and the relationship of ekphrastic speech to the ongoing action in which it is enunciated. It maps the parameters of ekphrasis on the early modern English stage by considering...

... of epistemological decorum in early modern theatre and describes the figure of the female playgoer as a model for indecorous participation, one that knowingly exploits the tensions between actuality and theatricality in order to sustain the play while also revealing its dependence upon the absorption and judgement...

... the drama of England, France, Italy, and Spain against the backdrop of the new modes of capitalist accumulation that were beginning to transform European society, including the commercial theatre itself, in order to demonstrate the omnipresence of poverty as theatrical energy in early modern theatre...

... performance statistics 16th c St Paul’s Boys theatre company Pickering John Horestes revenge drama early modern theatre Homer Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides popular stage translation vernacular Hecuba ...

... ecology temporality non-human anthropocentrism Thomas Middleton early modern theatre Jane Bennett An apology must be made that these notes contain little or no technical or critical bibliography, but they are only intended to show that the Almanack was a very human book. Eustace Bosanquet...

... Shakespeare adaptation neoclassical theatre Double Falsehood unities act-endings early modern theatre Lewis Theobald’s ‘tragedy’ Double Falsehood, or the Distressed Lovers (perf. 1727; pub. 1728) is now widely regarded as the only substantial record of the otherwise lost 1613...

... Reign of King John The ancient Hubert King John comic history plays King John Mirror for Magistrates Holinshed Richard II Richard III early modern theatre Shakespeare’s plays represent great swathes of English history. They cover virtually the whole of the later Middle Ages before...

... of Chivalry The Woodall John wounded soldier Barrough Philip The Method of Physic by Beaumont Francis works of The Captain Scot Reginald The Discoverie of Witchcraft by surface reading ugliness witchcraft theater disability early modern culture performance early modern theatre bodily impairment...

... Pack George Pinkethman William Shadwell Thomas Confederacy The Congreve William Dilke Thomas Double Gallant The Old Batchelor The Pretenders The Squire of Alsatia The Vanbrugh John Volunteers The Love Makes a Man Beggar’s Opera The Burney Frances Cecilia Gay John Soldiers early modern...

... King’s Men theatre company London Greenwich Palace Chaucer Geoffrey The Knight’s Tale Fletcher John and W Shakespeare The Two Noble Kinsmen Shakespeare William and John Fletcher katabasis reception of Ovid early modern theatre Red Bull Playhouse William Shakespeare Thomas Heywood Harrowing...

... characters Amazons Dido Marpesis Penthesilea Henry Burnell Landgartha William Davenant Salamanca Spolia early modern theatre ...

... Jonathan Gil Kendrick Matthew Chastity value early modern theatre economics English national identity The early modern English stage frequently renders female chastity, virginity as well as married fidelity, in economic terms. Images of jewels, pearls and treasure abound, indicating chastity’s...

...This book explores emerging trends in the study of early modern theatre. It consists of essays that reflect on what a ‘New Theatricality’ would look like by providing what engineers call an ‘exploded view’ of early modern theatricality. Taken together, the essays highlight a cluster of mimetic...