Persecution, Plague and Fire: Fugitive Histories of the Stage in Early Modern England
Publisher: Chicago UP
Published: 2011
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780226500195
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Theater as a Loaded Gun; title: The Hurt That Comes of Fooling; title: Aeschylus’s Ballistic Stage; title: PART I: THE RUINS OF ROME; title: 1. The Theater as Persecution; title: Tragedy’s Guilty Creatures; title: England’s Conscience-Catching Theater; title: Rome’s Fatal Charades; title: 2. Tyrannical Drama; title: The Dream of Theatrical Justice; title: Hamlet’s Show Trial; title: The King’s Immunity; title: The Widow’s Foregone Confession; title: Gertrude’s Uncaught Conscience; title: Orestes Redux; title: The End of Rome; title: PART II: THE FALL OF THE UNIFIED CHURCH; title: 3. The Theater as Infection; title: The Toxic Middle Age; title: “The Theater and the Plague”; title: “The Sure Disease of Uncertaine Causes”; title: The Life of Performance; title: Not Quite Nothing; title: 4. Stigmatical Drama; title: Some Symptoms of the Medieval Stage; title: “It is not words that shakes me thus”; title: The Plague in Art; title: “Look there, look there!”; title: PART III: THE APOCALYPSE TO COME; title: 5. The Theater as Conflagration; title: The Eschatology of the Tudor Stage; title: The Theater’s Propensity for Burning; title: Raising the “Cry of Sodom”; title: Wielding the Crime of Sodom; title: Sodomy’s False Origins; title: 6. Sodomitical Drama; title: The Sought Apocalypse; title: Remembering Lot’s Wife; title: The Stage’s Hymeneal Contract; title: The Impossible History of Theater Fires; title: The Mare Mortuum’s Infinite Stage; title: Afterword: On the Uncertainty of What Comes After; title: Bibliography; title: Index