This Earthly Stage: World And Stage In Late Medieval And Early Modern England (cursor Mundi)

"The thirteen essays collected in 'This Earthly Stage' explore intersections between the world as stage and the stage as world in late medieval and early modern England. The volume features studies of stages both familiar and unfamiliar, and worlds old and new - from the ritual performance of funerals for the fifteenth-century London elite to the electronic recreation of Shakespeare on the Internet. The essays engage with a variety of scholarly fields, including art and iconography, cultural and social history, digital humanities, literature, myth, philology, and philosophy. Most studies examine performative elements of Shakespeare's works in relation to a representative selection of other plays from the dramatic genres in which he wrote, while they also analyse broader topics which traverse a number of plays, such as kingship and rites of civic performance in relation to stage drama. All of the essays consider the overarching issue of representation in late medieval and early modern English drama and culture through a range of theoretical approaches. This volume offers a valuable contribution to contemporary medieval and early modern scholarship, with a particular interest for those researching and teaching early modern English drama and culture." Front matter (“Contents”, “List of Illustrations”, “List of Contributors”), p. i Free Access Introduction, p. 1 Christopher Wortham https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.3.4715 ‘Bi-fold Authority’: The Electronic Re-creation of Shakespeare, p. 17 Michael Best https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.3.4716 Pruning the Tree of Virtue in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, p. 39 Victoria Bladen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.3.4717 Twentieth-Century Australian Dreams, p. 63 Alan Brissenden https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.3.4718 Contagious Emulation: Antitheatricality and Theatre as Plague in Troilus and Cressida, p. 75 Darryl Chalk https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.3.4719 The Elemental Gertrude: Howard Barker’s Refashioning of Hamlet’s Mother, p. 103 Steve Chinna https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.3.4720 ‘I take pleasure in singing, sir’: Towards an Interpretation of Shakespearean Song, p. 115 Heather Dubrow https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.3.4721 From Jew to Puritan: The Emblematic Owl in Early English Culture, p. 131 Brett D. Hirsch https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.3.4722 ‘Romancing the Handbook’: Scenes of Detection in Arden of Faversham, p. 173 Heather Kerr https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.3.4723 Edward II and the Rhetoricians of Myth, p. 193 Clayton G. MacKenzie https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.3.4724 Making Men out of Kings: Shakespeare’s Sources and Kingship, p. 211 Mary-Rose McLaren https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.3.4725 Informing Audiences: Marlowe’s Early Tragedies, p. 235 Lucy Potter https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.3.4726 Private Drama, Public Spectacle: Death and the Pre-Reformation London Elite, p. 257 John Tillotson https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.3.4727 Irony and Transcendence on the Renaissance Stage, p. 279 Laurence Wright https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.3.4728 "The thirteen essays collected in 'This earthly stage' explore intersections between the world as stage and the stage as world in late medieval and early modern England. The volume features studies of stages both familiar and unfamiliar, and worlds old and new - from the ritual performance of funerals for the fifteenth-century London elite to the electronic recreation of Shakespeare on the Internet. The essays engage with a vareity of scholarly fields, including art and iconography, cultural and social history, digital humanities, literature, myth, philology, and philosophy. Most studies examine performative elements of Shakespeare's works in relation to a representative selection of other plays from the dramatic genres in which he wrote, while they also analyse broader topics which traverse a number of plays, such as kingship and rites of civic performance in relation to stage drama. All of the essays consider the overarching issue of representation in late medieval and early modern English drama and culture through a range of theoretical approaches. This volume offers a valuable contribution to contemporary medieval and early modern scholarship, with a particular interest for those researching and teaching early modern English drama and culture." -- back cover The thirteen essays collected in This Earthly Stage explore intersections between the world as stage and the stage as world in late medieval and early modern England. This collection features studies of stages both familiar and unfamiliar, and worlds old and new - from the ritual performance of funerals for the fifteenth-century London elite to the electronic recreation of Shakespeare on the internet. The collected essays engage with a variety of scholarly fields, including art and iconography, cultural and social history, digital humanities, literature, myth, philology, and philosophy. This volume offers a valuable contribution to contemporary medieval and early modern studies, with a particular interest for those researching and teaching early modern English drama and culture.