Staging the Renaissance : reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama / edited by David Scott Kastan and Peter Stallybrass.

Contents Civic rites, city sites -- Playing and power -- Censorship and interpretation -- Theater of the idols -- Boy actors, female roles, and Elizabethan eroticism -- Women as spectators, spectacles, and paying customers -- Sodomy and society : the cas of Christopher Marlowe -- What is a text? -- "The Very names of the persons" : editing and the invention of dramatick character -- "Tragedies naturally performed" : the Spanish Tragedy (c. 1587) -- Will to absolute play : the Jew of Malta (c. 1589) -- Subversion through transgression : Doctor Faustus (c. 1592) -- Alice Arden's crime : Arden of Faversham (c. 1590) -- Workshop and/as playhouse : the Shoemaker's holiday (1599) -- Ben Jonson and the publicke riot : Ben Jonson's comedies -- City talk : Epicoene (1609) -- Pastimes and the purging of theater : Bartholomew fair (1614) -- Reading the body and the Jacobean theater of consumption : the Revenger's tragedy (1606) -- Logic of the transvestite : the Roaring girl (1608) -- Spectre of resistance : the Tragedy of Mariam (1613) -- Italians and others : the White devil (1612).
Contents Incest and ideology : the Duchess of Malfi (1614) -- Beatrice-Joanna and the rhetoric of love : the Changeling (1622).
Local noteLittle-319062--305131019151U
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 91026957
ISBN0415901677
ISBN0415901669 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks PR653 .S7 1991 ✔ Available Place Hold