Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England [electronic resource] /
Loughnane, R.editor.
Semple, E.editor.
Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England is a groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays, drawing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss and challenge critical assumptions about the transgressive nature of the early modern English stage. These essays shed new light on issues of gender, race, sexuality, law and politics.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Stages of Transgression; Rory Loughnane -- 1. "On the most Eminent seate thereof is Gouernement Illustrated": staging power in the Lord Mayor's Show; Tracey Hill -- 2. The Transgressive Stage Player; William Ingram -- 3. "Ha, Ha, Ha": Shakespeare and the edge of laughter; Adam Smyth -- 4. "Have we done aught amiss?": Transgression, Indirection and Audience Reception in Titus Andronicus; Darragh Greene -- 5. The King's Three Bodies: Resistance Theory and Richard III; Rob Carson -- 6. Marriage, Politics and Law in The Tragedy of Mariam and The Duchess of Malfi; Christina Luckyj -- 7. Incapacitated Will; Rebecca Lemon -- 8. Transgression Embodied: Medicine, Religion and Shakespeare's Dramatised Persons; Thomas Rist -- 9. The Taming of the Jew: Spit and the Civilizing Process in The Merchant of Venice; Brett D. Hirsch -- 10. 'Edgar I Nothing Am': Blackface in King Lear; Benjamin Minor and Ayanna Thompson -- 11. Marrying the Dead: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline and The Tempest; Lisa Hopkins -- 12. Speaking Out of Turn: Gender, Language and Transgression in Early Modern England; Danielle Clarke -- 13. Rethinking Transgression with Shakespeare's Bawds; Edel Semple -- 14. 'Nothing but pickled cucumbers': The Longing Wives of Middletonian City Comedy; Celia R. Caputi -- 15. Lady Macbeth and Othello, Transgression and Convention in Early Modern Tragedy; Andrew J. Power -- 16. "How to vse your Brothers Brotherly": Civility, Incivility and Civil War in 3 Henry VI; Christopher Ivic -- Afterword; Jean E. Howard -- Bibliography -- Index -- .
Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England is a groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays, drawing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss and challenge critical assumptions about the transgressive nature of the early modern English stage. These essays shed new light on issues of gender, race, sexuality, law and politics.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Literature, Modern.
Poetry.
Performing arts.
British literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Performing Arts.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.