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7 1 0 2 y a M 2 1 9 0 : 2 1 t a ] o g e i D n a S a, i n r o f i l a C f o y t i s r e v i n U [ y b d e d a o l n w o D Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater 7 1 0 2 y a M 2 This collection of original essays honors the groundbreaking scholarship of Jean 1 E. Howard by exploring cultural and economic constructions of affect in the 9 early modern theater. While historicist and materialist inquiry has dominated 0 2: early modern theater studies in recent years, the historically specific dimensions 1 t of affect and emotion remain underexplored. This volume brings together these a lines of inquiry for the first time, exploring the critical turn to affect in literary ] o studies from a historicist perspective to demonstrate how the early modern the- g e ater showcased the productive interconnections between historical contingencies i D and affective attachments. Considering well-known plays such as Shakespeare’s n Antony and C leopatra and Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday together a S with understudied texts such as court entertainments, and examining topics rang- a, ing from dramatic celebrity to women’s political agency to the parental emotion i n of grief, this volume provides a fresh and at times provocative assessment of the r o “historical affects”—financial, emotional, and socio-political—that transformed f i l Renaissance theater. Instead of treating history and affect as mutually exclu- a C sive theoretical or philosophical contexts, the essays in this volume ask readers of to consider how drama emplaces the most personal, unspeakable passions in y matrices defined in part by financial exchange, by erotic desire, by gender, by t si the material body, and by theatricality itself. As it encourages this conversation r e to take place, the collection provides scholars and students alike with a series of v ni new perspectives, not only on the plays, emotions, and histories discussed in its U pages, but also on broader shifts and pressures animating literary studies today. [ y b Ronda Arab, Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, is the d e author of Manly Mechanicals on the Early Modern English Stage (2011), an d a examination of the gender status of working men in Shakespeare’s works and o l works of his contemporaries. n w o Michelle M. Dowd is Associate Professor of English at the University of North D 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). Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies 1 Crossing Cultural Borders 9 Feminist Visions and 7 Through the Actor’s Work Queer Futures in 1 0 Foreign Bodies of Postcolonial Drama 2 y Knowledge Community, Kinship, a M Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento and Citizenship 2 Kanika Batra 1 2 Movement Training for the 9 0 Modern Actor 10 Nineteenth-Century Theatre : 2 Mark Evans and the Imperial Encounter 1 t Marty Gould a ] 3 The Politics of American o g Actor Training 11 The Theatre of Richard e Di Edited by Ellen Margolis and Maxwell and the New York n Lissa Tyler Renaud City Players a S Sarah Gorman a, 4 Performing Embodiment in i n Samuel Beckett’s Drama 12 Shakespeare, Theatre and Time r o f Anna McMullan Matthew D. 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Dowd, and Adam Zucker 7 1 0 This page intentionally left blank 2 y a M 2 1 9 0 : 2 1 t a ] o g e i D n a S a, i n r o f i l a C f o y t i s r e v i n U [ y b d e d a o l n w o D Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater 7 1 0 2 y a M Edited by 2 1 9 Ronda Arab, Michelle M. Dowd, 0 : 2 and Adam Zucker 1 t a ] o g e i D n a S a, i n r o f i l a C f o y t i s r e v i n U [ y b d e d a o l n w o D First published 2015 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business 7 © 2015 Taylor & Francis 1 0 2 The right of the editors to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the y authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 a of the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988. M 2 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any 1 form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, 9 including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, 0 : without permission in writing from the publishers. 2 1 t Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, a ] and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. o g e Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data i D n Historical affects and the early modern theater / edited by Ronda Arab, 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. l a 5. Theater—England—History—17th century. C I. Arab, Ronda, 1964- editor. II. Dowd, Michelle M., 1975- editor. of III. Zucker, Adam, 1972- editor. y PR658.H5H57 2015 it 822'.309358—dc23 2014041879 s r e v ISBN: 978-1-138-02050-4 (hbk) ni ISBN: 978-1-315-77651-4 (ebk) U [ Typeset in Sabon y by codeMantra b d e d a o l n w o D Contents 7 1 0 2 y a M List of Figures x 2 1 Preface xi 9 0 : 2 1 Introduction t a 1 ] RONDA ARAB, MICHELLE M. DOWD, AND ADAM ZUCKER o g e Di PART I n Struggling with the Stage a S a, 1 Going Through the Motions: Affects, Machines, i n r and John Ford’s The Broken Heart 15 o f li PATRICIA CAHILL a C f 2 Magnetic Theaters 28 o y t BENEDICT ROBINSON i s r e v 3 Feeling Unhistorical 40 i n U ELLEN MACKAY [ y b 4 Literary Celebrity and Theatrical Culture in Shirley’s d e Bird in a Cage 54 d oa ALLISON K. DEUTERMANN l n w o PART II D Engendering … 5 Monstrous Teardrops: The Materiality of Early Modern Affection 69 IAN FREDERICK MOULTON viii Contents 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 7 JYOSTNA SINGH 1 0 2 y PART III a M … A Nation 2 1 9 8 Wondering in Henry VIII or All is True 111 0 : TIFFANY WERTH 2 1 t a 9 Angelica and Franceschina: The Italianate Characters of ] o Juliet’s Nurse 124 g e i BIANCA FINZI-CONTINI CALABRESI D n a 10 The Mirror and the Cage: Queens and Dwarfs at the S a, Early Modern Court 137 i n PAMELA ALLEN BROWN r o f i al 11 Gold Digger or Golden Girl?: Purifying the Pursuit of C f Gold in Heywood’s Fair Maid of the West, Part I 152 o y JANE HWANG DEGENHARDT t i s r e v PART IV i n Theater of a City U [ y b 12 Civic Affect and Female Political Agency in d Sir Thomas More 169 e d a MARIO DIGANGI o l n w 13 Corporate Life in Thomas Dekker’s o D The Shoemaker’s Holiday 182 HENRY S. TURNER 14 Transforming the Younger Son: The Disruptive Affect of the Gentleman-Apprentice in Eastward Ho 198 RONDA ARAB Contents ix 15 Managing Fear: The Commerce in Blackness and the London Lord Mayors’ Shows 211 IAN SMITH Afterword 220 PHYLLIS RACKIN 7 1 0 Contributors 225 2 y Bibliography 231 Ma Index 255 2 1 9 0 : 2 1 t a ] o g e i D n a S a, i n r o f i l a C f o y t i s r e v i n U [ y b d e d a o l n w o D

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