Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater

273 Pages·2015·2.094 MB·English

by  Ronda Arab, Michelle Dowd, Adam Zucker

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2 This collection of original essays honors the groundbreaking scholarship of Jean
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9 early modern theater. While historicist and materialist inquiry has dominated
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t of affect and emotion remain underexplored. This volume brings together these
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b Ronda Arab, Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, is the
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o Michelle M. Dowd is Associate Professor of English at the University of North
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Carolina, Greensboro. She is the author of Women’s Work in Early Modern
English Literature and Culture (2009) and The Dynamics of I nheritance on the
Shakespearean Stage (forthcoming 2015).
Adam Zucker is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachu-
setts Amherst. He is the author of The Places of Wit in Early Modern English
Comedy (2011) and the co-editor of Localizing Caroline Drama: Politics and
Economics of the Early Modern English Stage, 1625–1642 (2006).
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a Michelle M. Dowd, and Adam Zucker.
S pages cm. — (Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 41)
a, Includes bibliographical references and index.
ni 1. English drama—Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600—History and
or criticism. 2. English drama—17th century—History and criticism. 3. Theater and
if history—England—History. 4. Theater—England—History—16th century.
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I. Arab, Ronda, 1964- editor. II. Dowd, Michelle M., 1975- editor.
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Contents
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List of Figures x
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6 “Displeas’d ambitious TONGUE”: Lingua and
Lingual Duality 82
LIANNE HABINEK
7 “Come, Eros, Eros!”: Re-reading Emotion and Affect in
Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra 97
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HENRY S. TURNER
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RONDA ARAB
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15 Managing Fear: The Commerce in Blackness and the
London Lord Mayors’ Shows 211
IAN SMITH
Afterword 220
PHYLLIS RACKIN
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