Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater

ISBN-13: 9780367738396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 260 str.

Ronda Arab; Michelle Dowd; Adam Zucker

Opis

Considering affect as mood, inclination, and manner, as well as emotion, and addressing affect as both an economic and cultural phenomenon, this collection of fourteen original essays showcases historical modes of affect within the formal productions of early modern English theater as well as its more informal entertainments and

Spis treści

Introduction Ronda Arab, Michelle M. Dowd, and Adam Zucker  Part I: Struggling with the Stage  1. Going Through the Motions: Affects, Machines, and John Ford’s The Broken Heart Patricia Cahill  2. Magnetic Theaters Benedict Robinson  3. Feeling Unhistorical Ellen MacKay  4. Literary Celebrity and Theatrical Culture in Shirley’s Bird in a Cage Allison K. Deutermann  Part II: Engendering…  5. Monstrous Teardrops: The Materiality of Early Modern Affection Ian Frederick Moulton  6. "Displeas’d ambitious TONGUE": Lingua and Lingual Duality Lianne Habinek  7. "Come, Eros, Eros!": Re-reading Emotion and Affect in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra Jyostna Singh  Part III: …A Nation  8. Wondering in Henry VIII or All is True Tiffany Werth  9. Angelica and Franceschina: The Italianate Characters of Juliet’s Nurse Bianca Finzi-Contini Calabresi  10. The Mirror and the Cage: Queens and Dwarfs at the Early Modern Court Pamela Allen Brown  11. Gold Digger or Golden Girl?: Purifying the Pursuit of Gold in Heywood’s Fair Maid of the West, Part I Jane Hwang Degenhardt  Part IV: Theater of a City  12. Civic Affect and Female Political Agency in Sir Thomas More Mario DiGangi  13. Corporate Life in Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday Henry S. Turner  14. Transforming the Younger Son: The Disruptive Affect of the Gentleman-Apprentice in Eastward Ho Ronda Arab  15. Managing Fear: The Commerce in Blackness and the London Lord Mayors’ Shows Ian Smith  Afterward Phyllis Rackin

O autorze

Ronda Arab, Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, is the author of Manly Mechanicals on the Early Modern English Stage (2011), an examination of the gender status of working men in Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Michelle M. Dowd is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She is the author of Women’s Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (2009) and The Dynamics of Inheritance on the Shakespearean Stage (forthcoming 2015).

Adam Zucker is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of The Places of Wit in Early Modern English Comedy and the co-editor of Localizing Caroline Drama: Politics and Economics of the Early Modern English Stage, 1625-1642.