Persecution, plague, and fire : fugitive histories of the stage in early modern England /
MacKay, Ellen.
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the theater as a loaded gun -- The hurt that comes of fooling -- Aeschylus's ballistic stage -- The ruins of Rome -- The theater as persecution -- Tragedy's guilty creatures -- England's conscience-catching theater -- Rome's fatal charades -- Tyrannical drama -- The dream of theatrical justice -- Hamlet's show trial -- The king's immunity -- The widow's foregone confession -- Gertrude's uncaught conscience -- Orestes redux -- The end of Rome -- The fall of the unified church -- The theater as infection -- The toxic middle age -- "The theater and the plague" -- "The sure disease of uncertaine causes" -- The life of performance -- Not quite nothing -- Stigmatical drama -- Some symptoms of the medieval stage -- "It is not words that shakes me thus" -- The plague in art -- "Look there, look there!" -- The apocalypse to come -- The theater as conflagration -- The eschatology of the Tudor stage -- The theater's propensity for burning -- Raising the "cry of Sodom" -- Wielding the crime of Sodom -- Sodomy's false origins -- Sodomitical drama -- The sought apocalypse -- Remembering Lot's wife -- The stage's hymeneal contract -- The impossible history of theater fires -- The mare mortuum's infinite stage -- Afterword: on the uncertainty of what comes after.
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