Early Modern Theatricality (Oxford Twenty-first Century Approaches to Literature)

Turner, Henry S. (EDT)

Oxford University Press（2018/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 638 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780198817512
• DDC分類 822.309

Full Description

The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge, scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus, they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate.

Following the models established by previous volumes in the Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature series, Early Modern Theatricality launches a new generation of scholarship on early modern drama by focusing on the rich formal capacities of theatrical performance. The collection gathers some of the most innovative critics in the field to examine the techniques, objects, bodies, and conventions that characterized early modern theatricality, from the Tudor period to the Restoration. Taking their cues from a series of guiding keywords, the contributors identify the fundamental features of theatricality in the period, using them to launch conceptually adventurous arguments. The volume generates fresh possibilities for criticism by combining historical, formal, and philosophical questions, in order to provoke our rediscovery of early modern drama in all its complexity and inventiveness.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1: Henry S. Turner: Generalization
2: Laura Weigert: Stage
3: Richard Preiss: Interiority
4: Peter Womack: Off-stage
5: Bruce R. Smith: Scene
6: Paul Menzer: Lines
7: Stephen Guy-Bray: Source
8: William N. West: Intertheatricality
9: Evelyn Tribble: Skill
10: Gina Bloom: Games
11: Erika T. Lin: Festivity
12: Scott A. Trudell: Occasion
13: Mary Thomas Crane: Optics
14: Joel Altman: Ekphrasis
15: Jeremy Lopez: Dumb show
16: Ellen MacKay: Indecorum
17: Madhavi Menon: Desire
18: Simon Palfrey: Formaction
19: Scott Maisano: Now
20: Michael Witmore: Eventuality
21: Paul A. Kottman: Duel
22: Julia Reinhard Lupton: Hospitality
23: Jonathan Gil Harris: Becoming-Indian
24: Robert Henke: Poor
25: Susanne L. Wofford: Foreign
26: Anston Bosman: Mobility
27: Phil Withington: Honestas
28: Ann Baynes Coiro: Reading
29: Blair Hoxby: Passions
Index of Plays
General Index