Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England Vol. 20Edited by S. P. Cerasano
About the Editor:
S. P. Cerasano is the Edgar W. B. Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University.
Volume 20 of Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England reflects a variety of scholarly interests, ranging from a forum on race, racism, and performance to articles addressing madness and hagiography in Hamlet, and the staging of suffering in King Lear. Various authors have also contributed essays on the historical and theoretical issues relating to the actor’s body, the handling of foreign languages on the English stage, and the use of stage curtains. Additionally the volume includes extended notes concerning a seventeenth-century playhouse in Tonbridge, Kent, and the professional lineage of Robert Armin. MaRDiE continues its custom of publishing review essays in one overview of books relating to the English history play and a second overview of drugs and medicine on the early modern stage. Reviews—long and short—complete the volume. Contents
Foreword
Contributors
Forum: Race, Racism, and Performance on the Early Modern Stage
Racial Impersonation on the Elizabethan Stage: The Case of Shakespeare Playing Aaron
Imtiaz Habib
The Folly of Racism: Enslaving Blackface and the “Natural” Fool Tradition
Robert Hornback
Moorish Dancing in The Two Noble Kinsmen
Sujata Iyengar
Articles
Ophelia’s “Old Lauds”: Madness and Hagiography in Hamlet
Alison A. Chapman
“Now wole I a newe game begynne”: Staging Suffering in King Lear, the Mystery Plays, and Grotius’s Christus Patiens
Beatrice Groves
Curtains on the Shakespearean Stage
Frederick Kiefer
Imagining the Actor’s Body on the Early Modern Stage
Jeremy Lopez
“Ick verstaw you niet”: Performing Foreign Tongues on the Early Modern Stage
Andrew Fleck
Notes and Documents
The Succession of Sots, or Fools and Their Fathers
John H. Astington
An Early Seventeenth-Century Playhouse in Tonbridge, Kent
James M. Gibson
Reviews Essays
This Strange, Eventful History . . .
Andrew James Hartley
Drugs, Medicine, and the Early Modern Stage
Stanton B. Garner Jr.
Reviews
Celia R. Daileader, Racism, Misogyny, and the “Othello” Myth: Inter-racial Couples from Shakespeare to Spike Lee
Christy Desmet
Gail Kern Paster, Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage
Eric Johnson-DeBaufre
Pascale Aebischer, Shakespeare’s Violated Bodies: Stage and Screen Performance
Deneen Senasi
Susan Zimmerman, The Early Modern Corpse and Shakespeare’s Theatre
Heather Hirschfeld
Virginia Mason Vaughn, Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800
Francesca T. Royster
Mathew Biberman, Masculinity, Anti-Semitism and Early Modern English Literature: From the Satonic to the Effeminate Jew
Peter BerekISBN 978-0-8386-4127-9
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