Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage -

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Résumé :

Introduction: 'All the World's a Stage': Reconceptualizing Renaissance Performance
Jennifer Linhart Wood, George Mason University, USA, and Amrita Sen, University of Calcutta, India

Section I: Documents of Performance
Chapter 1: Stage Directions in the Medieval English Theatre: Functions, Conventions, and Transitions
Philip Butterworth, University of Leeds, UK
Chapter 2: 'Take some part in this booke and act it': Amateur Actor's Parts and Professional Drama
Daniel Yabut, ?cole Nationale Superieur d'Art Dramatique (ENSAD) and Universit? Paul-Val?ry Montpellier 3, France
Chapter 3: Marks of Amateur Performance: Edward Dering's Manuscript of King Henry the Fourth and Other Traces of Performance-Minded Readers
Meaghan Brown, National Endowment for the Humanities, USA
Chapter 4: Oxford and the Morris Dance: University and Communal Performances
Nat?lia Pikli, E?tv?s Lor?nd University, Hungary


Section II: Devotional Performances
Chapter 5: Recreation, Pleasure and Performance in the Medieval Convent
Olivia Robinson, University of Birmingham, UK
Chapter 6: Closet Catholicism, Private Entertainments, and Shakespeare in Seventeenth-Century Yorkshire
Chelsea McKelvey, Clemson University, USA
Chapter 7: Performing Religious Reform in the Mid-Tudor Parish Church
Anne Heminger, University of Tampa, USA

Section III: Musical Performances
Chapter 8: Local Community and Performativity: The Tutbury Minstrel Court
Csilla Vir?g, E?tv?s Lor?nd University, Hungary
Chapter 9: Contextualising Shakespeare's As You Like It Within Court Performance
Murat ?g?tc?, Adiyaman University, T?rkiye
Chapter 10: Memory, Music, and the Politics of Forgotten Entertainments in Early Modern London
Sarah F. Williams, University of South Carolina, USA

Section III: Political Entertainments
Chapter 11: The King's Players and London's Civic Drama: Richard Burbage and London's Love to the Royal Prince Henry (1610)
Siobhan Keenan, De Montfort University, UK
Chapter 12: From Britain to Fairyland: Prince Henry's Investiture and the Fictionalizing Power of the Stuart Court Masques
Gabriel Lonsberry, Jacksonville State University, USA
Chapter 13: Revising Patriarchal Gender Politics in the Masques of Charles I and Henrietta Maria
Effie Botonaki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Chapter 14: Performative Encounters in Seventeenth-Century British North America
Alden T. Vaughan, Columbia University, USA, and Virginia Mason Vaughan, Clark University, USA

Section IV: Materialities of Performance
Chapter 15: 'Under Pretence of Rope Dancing': Headlining Performances at the Interregnum Red Bull
Emma Rose Kraus, University of Kent, UK
Chapter 16: Monsters and Machines: Puppets as Performers, Props, and Stages in English Political Pageantry
Nicole Sheriko, Yale University, USA
Chapter 17: Performing Play: Chess, Performance, and Spectacle in Early Modern England Souvik Mukherjee, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, India

Section V: Spectacular Performances
Chapter 18: Performing Primates: Simantics, Racialization, and Extra-theatrical Archives
Teresa Simone, University of Mississippi, USA
Chapter 19: Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Performance
Maria Shmygol, British Shakespeare Association, UK
Chapter 20: Early Modern Performative Failures
Abbie Weinberg, Independent Scholar, USA