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MJiTtHJM the IsHJMM^illIH^ ISTAGINGI the [RENAISSANCE! REINTERPRETATIONS OF ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN DRAMA Edited by DAVID SCOTT KASTAN and PETER STALLYBRASS Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Published in 1991 by Routledge Taylor and Francis Group 270 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 Routledge Taylor and Francis Group 2 Park Square Milton Park, Abingdon Oxon OX14 4RN Copyright © 1991 by Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data 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 British Library Cataloguing in publication data also available 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 vi I Contents 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. ix
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