Embodiment and environment in early modern drama and performance
Mary Floyd-Wilson (Editor), Garrett A. Sullivan (Editor)
Part of a series of annual publications, which is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. This volume explores the environmentally situated nature of early modern psychology and physiology, both as depicted in dramatic texts and as a condition of theatrical performance.
Print Book, English, 2006
Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill., 2006
Renaissance drama (Evanston, Ill. : 1964), new ser., 35
essays
x, 222 pages ; 24 cm.
9780810123656, 0810123657
70214044
Hamlet's Northern Lineage: Masculinity, Climate, and the Mechanician in Early Modern Britain, by Daryl W. Palmer; ""Divided in soyle"": Plantation and Degeneracy in The Tempest and The Sea Voyage, by Jean Feerick; ""Euery soyle to mee is naturall"": Figuring Denization in William Haughton's English-men for My Money, by Alan Stewart; The Actor's Inhibition: Early Modern Acting and the Rhetoric of Restraint, by Paul Menzer; Understanding in the Elizabethan Theaters, by William N. West; Eating Air, Feeling Smells: Hamlet's Theory of Performance, by Carolyn Sale; All Swell That End Swell: Dropsy, Phantom Pregnancy, and the Sound of Deconception in All's Well That Ends Well, by Jonathan Gil Harris; The Devil's in the Archive: Doctor Faustus and Ovidean Physics, by Kristen Poole.