Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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, theater, and performance.
Table of Contents
The old and the new : the Spanish Comedia and the resistance to historical change / Anthony J. Cascardi -- The beginnings of Elizabethan drama / G.K. Hunter --Subjectivity, sexuality, and transgression / Jonathan Dollimore -- Way stations in the errancy of the word /Ruth El Saffar -- Temporality, anachronism, and presence in Shakespeare's English histories / Phyllis Rackin -- The crowd in theater and the crowd in history / Angus MacKay, Geraldine McKendrick -- A provincial masque of Comus, 1636 / Martin Butler.