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Performing Environments: Site-Specificity in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama

Performing Environments: Site-Specificity in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama


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Performing Environments is an original and important collection examining site specificity in a diverse range of medieval and early modern performance cultures. The chapters take up theories of site specificity more commonly deployed in the study of contemporary work in order to raise new questions and suggest innovative approaches to the study of performance in the historical past. The book provides an introduction to site specific theories as well as a review of the recent 'geographical turn' in medieval and early modern scholarship that frames the studies for both novice and expert readers. Individual chapters explore both theatrical performances and paratheatrical events through the lens of site specificity; together they not only interrogate the role and impact of place on experiences of production and reception, but also demonstrate how genealogies of performance might challenge more conventional literary periodization. List of Contributors: Patricia Badir, Susan Bennett, Sarah Crover, Elisabeth Dutton, Jim Ellis, Helen Ostovich, Vimala C. Pasupathi, Mary Polito, Joseph Rodriguez, Julie Sanders, Amy Scott, Kim Solga, Kevin Teo and Clare Wright.

Table of Contents:
Thinking Site: an Introduction, Susan Bennett and Mary Polito PART I: BUILDING FRAMEWORKS 1. 'The whole past, the whole time': Untimely Matter and the Playing Spaces of York, Patricia Badir 2. John Heywood, Henry, and Hampton Court Palace, Elisabeth Dutton 3. Playing The Changeling Architecturally, Kim Solga PART II: TRAVEL AND TYPOGRAPHY 4. Performing Folk at Kenilworth, Jim Ellis 5. Knights and Daze: The Place of Romance in the Queen's Men's Repertory, Helen Ostovich 6. Geographies of Performance in the Early Modern Midlands, Julie Sanders PART III: PSYCHIC SPACES 7. Mapping Guild Conflict in the York Passion Plays, Kevin Teo 8. Body, Site and Memory in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament, Clare Wright 9. A Taste of High Life at Elvetham: Elizabethan Progresses and the Rural Consumption of Royal Neverwheres, Sarah Crover PART IV: CROSSING BOUNDARIES 10. With the grace off God at th'entryng off the Brigge: Crown versus Town and the Giant of London Bridge 11. Lydgate's Triumphal Entry of Henry VI, Joseph Rodriguez 12. Cymbeline and the Politics/Poetics of Mobility, Amy Scott 13. Locating The Valiant Scot, Vimala C. Pasupathi Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Susan Bennett is University Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is widely published across a variety of theatre and performance studies topics, and her previous books include Theatre and Museums (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Theatre Audiences: A Theory of Production and Reception (1997) and Performing Nostalgia: Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past (1996). Mary Polito is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary, Canada. She has published on early modern theatre and performance culture, on Shakespeare in the present and recently co-edited (with Jacqueline Jenkins) a newly discovered seventeenth-century play manuscript for The Malone Society.

Review :
"This impressive volume makes an important contribution to critical work on memory, history, and performing environments in the medieval and early modern periods. The studies interrogate the volume's theme from a range of perspectives, engaging a variety of different genres and media in illuminating ways." - Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College, USA


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781137320179
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Sub Title: Site-Specificity in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama
  • ISBN-10: 1137320176
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jun 2014
  • Language: English


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