Renaissance Drama 35Mary Floyd-Wilson, Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theatre, and performance. This special issue of Renaissance Drama "Embodiment and Environment in Early Modern Drama and Performance" is guest-edited by Mary Floyd-Wilson and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. Anatomized, fragmented, and embarrassed, the body has long been fruitful ground for scholars of early modern literature and culture. The contributors suggest, however, that period conceptions of embodiment cannot be understood without attending to transactional relations between body and environment. The volume explores the environmentally situated nature of early modern psychology and physiology, both as depicted in dramatic texts and as a condition of theatrical performance. Individual essays shed new light on the ways that travel and climatic conditions were understood to shape and reshape class status, gender, ethnicity, national identity, and subjectivity; they focus on theatrical ecologies, identifying the playhouse as a "special environment" or its own "ecosystem," where performances have material, formative effects on the bodies of actors and audience members; and they consider transactions between theatrical, political, and cosmological environments. For the contributors to this volume, the early modern body is examined primarily through its engagements with and operations in specific environments that it both shapes and is shaped by. Embodiment, these essays show, is without borders. |
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Contents
Masculinity Climate and the Mechanician in Early Modern Britain | 3 |
Plantation and Degeneracy in The Tempest and The Sea Voyage | 27 |
Figuring Denization in William Haughtons Englishmen for My Money | 55 |
Early Modern Acting and the Rhetoric of Restraint | 83 |
Understanding in the Elizabethan Theaters | 113 |
Hamlets Theory of Performance | 145 |
Dropsy Phantom Pregnancy and the Sound of Deconception in Alls Well That Ends Well | 169 |
Doctor Faustus and Ovidian Physics | 191 |
Notes on Contributors | 221 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Renaissance Drama 35 Volume 35 of Renaissance Drama Volume 35 of Renaissance drama (Evanston, Ill.).: New series |
| Editors | Mary Floyd-Wilson, Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. |
| Publisher | Northwestern University Press, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0810123657, 9780810123656 |
| Length | 222 pages |
| Subjects | › › Drama / General History / Europe / Renaissance Literary Criticism / Drama |
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