Chapter
Chapter 1 The Politics of Renaissance England
References and Further Reading
Chapter 2 Continental Influences
Chapter 3 Medieval and Reformation Roots
Prejudice and Public Theater
References and Further Reading
Chapter 4 Popular Culture and the Early Modern Stage
Print Culture: The Advent of Literacy
Popular Taste, Commercial Habits
A Theater for All: Mass Sociability
Playwriting: Hits and Flops
Chapter 5 Multiculturalism and Early Modern Drama
References and Further Reading
Chapter 6 London and Westminster
Rhetoric, Representation, and Reality
References and Further Reading
Chapter 7 Travel and Trade
References and Further Reading
Chapter 8 The Theater and the Early Modern Culture of Debt
Early Modern Drama and Money
Macroeconomics: The Early Modern English Credit Economy
Microeconomics: The Early Modern English Culture of Trust
An Early Modern Culture of Debt
Early Modern Drama of Debt
References and Further Reading
The Significance of “Family” in Early Modern England
Houses: Space, Fabric, and Furnishings
Marriage Ages, Spousals, and Weddings
Making Marriage: Lordship, Family, and Individual
Adultery, Cuckoldry and “Riding Skimmington”
Historiography and Sources
Chapter 11 Religious Persuasions, c.1580–c.1620
References and Further Reading
Chapter 12 Science, Natural Philosophy, and New Philosophy in Early Modern England
Chapter 13 Magic and Witchcraft
Defining Witchcraft in Context
Future Directions for Study
References and Further Reading
Chapter 14 Antitheatricality: The Theater as Scourge
Chapter 15 Performance: Audiences, Actors, Stage Business
Envisioning Early Performances and Audiences
Actors and Oral/Aural Culture
Acting Styles, Training, Rehearsal
References and Further Reading
Chapter 17 Theatrical License and Censorship
The End of Elizabeth’s Reign
References and Further Reading
Chapter 18 Playing Companies and Repertory
References and Further Reading
Chapter 19 Rehearsal and Acting Practice
Looking Backward, Playing Forward
Performance; Practice as Research
Chapter 20 Boy Companies and Private Theaters
Chapter 21 Women’s Involvement in Theatrical Production
References and Further Reading
Chapter 22 “To travayle amongst our frendes”: Touring
Playing Places and Conditions
Chapter 23 Progresses and Court Entertainments
Texts and Interpretations
References and Further Reading
Chapter 24 “What revels are in hand?” Performances in the Great Households
References and Further Reading
City, Crown, and Royal Entry
Time, Space, and Civic Ritual
From Civic Ritual to Civic Drama
The Masque in Performance
Chapter 27 The History Play: Shakespeare and Beyond
Toward a Definition of “History Play”
History Plays and the Reformation
Chapter 28 Domestic Tragedy: Private Life on the Public Stage
Laughter, Tears, and Lived Experience
References and Further Reading
Chapter 29 Revenge Tragedy
Chapter 30 Romance and Tragicomedy
Classifying Shakespeare’s “Late Plays”
Romance on the Renaissance Stage
Tragicomedy on the Renaissance Stage
The Cultural and Political Work of Genre
Popular Plays and Forgotten Histories
Part IV Critical Approaches
Chapter 31 Sexuality and Queerness on the Early Modern Stage
Historicizing Homoerotic Desire
Gender Fluidity and the Transvestite Theater
Renaissance Homonormativity
Further Directions in Renaissance Queer and Sexuality Studies
References and Further Reading
Chapter 32 Gendering the Stage
Chapter 33 Race and Early Modern Drama
Chapter 34 Staging Disability in Renaissance Drama
Chapter 35 Space and Place
Urban Space and City Drama
Present Space and the Digital Turn
Chapter 36 The Matter of Wit and the Early Modern Stage
Wit in the World: Community and Commodity
Religious Objects and Theatrical Trifles
Phenomenology and Performance
Part V Playwrights, Publishers, and Textual Studies
Chapter 38 The Transmission of an English Renaissance Play-Text
The Acting Company and Their Text
Chapter 39 Publishers of Drama
1590–1599: Thomas Creede and Cuthbert Burby
1600–1609: Waterson and Blount
1610 to 1619: Thomas Pavier
1620–1629: The Folio Syndicate, George Eld, and Nicholas Okes
1630s: William Cooke, Andrew Crooke, and Richard Meighen
Chapter 40 Sidney, Cary, Cavendish: Playwrights of the Printed Page and a Future Stage
Chapter 41 Nonprofessional Playwrights
A New Companion to Renaissance Drama
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