Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama

305 Pages·1992·29.354 MB·English

by  David Scott Kastan (editor), Peter Stallybrass (editor)

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Staging the Renaissance : essays on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama /
edited by David Scott Kastan and Peter Stallybrass.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-415-90167-7. ISBN 0-415-90166-9 (pbk.)
1. English drama—17th century—History and criticism. 2. English
drama—Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600—History and
criticism. 3. Theater—England—History—17th century. I. Kastan,
David Scott. II. Stallybrass, Peter.
PR653.S7 1991
822'.309—dc20 91-26957
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Contents
Acknowledgments IX
1. Introduction: Staging the Renaissance
David Scott Kastan and Peter Stallybrass 1
Part I The Conditions of Playing
2. Civic Rites, City Sites: The Place of the Stage
Steven Mullaney 17
3. Playing and Power
Leonard Tennenhouse 27
4. Censorship and Interpretation
Annabel Patterson 40
5. The Theater of the Idols: Theatrical and Anti-theatrical
Discourse
Jonathan V. Crewe 49
6. Boy Actors, Female Roles, and Elizabethan Eroticism
Lisa Jardine 57
7. Women as Spectators, Spectacles, and Paying Customers
Jean E. Howard 68
8. Sodomy and Society: The Case of Christopher Marlowe
Jonathan Goldberg 75
9. What is a Text?
Stephen Orgel 83
10. "The very names of the Persons": Editing and the
Invention of Dramatick Character
Random Cloud 88
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Part II The Plays
11. "Tragedies naturally performed":
Kyd's Representation of Violence
THE SPANISH TRAGEDY (c. 1587)
james Shapiro 99
12. The Will to Absolute Play
THE JEW OF MALTA (1589)
Stephen ]. Greenblatt 114
13. Subversion through Transgression
DOCTOR FAUSTUS (c. 1592)
jonathan Dollimore 122
14. Alice Arden's Crime
ARDEN OF FA VERSHAM (c. 1590)
Catherine Belsey 133
15. Workshop and/as Playhouse
THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY (1599)
David Scott Kastan 151
16. Ben Jonson and the Publicke Riot
BEN JONSON'S COMEDIES
Peggy Knapp 164
17. City Talk: Women and Commodification
EPICOENE (1609)
Karen Newman 181
18. Pastimes and the Purging of Theater
BARTHOLOMEW FAIR (1614)
Leah S. Marcus 196
19. Reading the Body and the Jacobean Theater of Consumption
THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY (1606)
Peter Stallybrass 210
20. The Logic of the Transvestite
THE ROARING GIRL (1608)
Majorie Garber 221
21. The Spectre of Resistance
THE TRAGEDY OF MARIAM (1613)
Margaret W. Ferguson 235
22. Italians and Others
THE WHITE DEVIL (1612)
Ann Rosalind Jones 251
Contents I vii
23. Incest and Ideology
THE DUCHESS OF MALFI (1614)
Frank Whigham 263
24. Beatrice-Joanna and the Rhetoric of Love
THE CHANGELING (1622)
Sara Eaton 275
Notes on Contributors 290

Acknowledgments
The editors gratefully acknowledge the following publishers for their
willingness to make materials available:
Catherine Belsey's "Alice Arden's Crime" is reprinted by permission of
Routledge, Chapman and Hall from The Subject of Tragedy (1985), pp. 129-
48.
Jonathan V. Crewe's "The Theater of the Idols: Theatrical and Anti-theatri­
cal Discourse" is reprinted by permission of Johns Hopkins University Press
from Theatre journal 36 (1984): 321-44.
Jonathan Dollimore's "Subversion through Transgression" is reprinted by
permission of Harvester Wheatsheaf and University of Chicago Press from
Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare
and his Contemporaries, 2nd ed. (1989), pp. 109-19.
Sara Eaton's "Beatrice-Joanna and the Rhetoric of Love" is reprinted by
permission ofJohns Hopkins University Press from Theatre ]ournal36 (1984):
371-82.
Jonathan Goldberg's "Sodomy and Society: The Case of Christopher Mar­
lowe" appeared initially in Southwest Review 69 (1984): 371-78.
Stephen J. Greenblatt's "The Will to Absolute Play" is reprinted by permis­
sion of University of Chicago Press from Renaissance Self-Fashioning (1980),
pp. 203-10.
Lisa Jardine's "Boy Actors, Female Roles, and Elizabethan Eroticism" is
reprinted by permission of Harvester Wheatsheaf and Columbia University
Press from Still Harping on Daughters, 2nd ed. (1989), pp. 9-33.
David Scott Kastan's "Workshop ami/as Playhouse" is reprinted by permis­
sion of University of North Carolina Press from Studies in Philology 84 (1987):
324-37.
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