Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Biographical note
Robert E. Stillman, Ph.D (1979) in English, University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has published widely on the literature and culture of the English Renaissance, and is completing a new book about Sidney's poetics.
Readership
All those interested in spectacles, public performances, Medieval and Renaissance drama, literature, and culture, Shakespeareans, and historians of the Early Modern era.
Reviews
Probably the greatest virtue of this collection is the diversity of phenomena that it brings within the compass of spectacle and performance.
(…) individually and collectively, these essays unquestionably challenge and advance our understanding of late medieval and early modern performance.
Jonathan Walker, Renaissance Quarterly
(…) individually and collectively, these essays unquestionably challenge and advance our understanding of late medieval and early modern performance.
Jonathan Walker, Renaissance Quarterly
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Editor’s Foreword
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
1. Antichrist on Page and Stage in the Later Middle Ages, Richard K. Emmerson
2. Staging Antichrist and the Performance of Miracles, Peter Cockett
3. “Nothing more nedeful”: Politics and the Rhetoric of Accommodation in Elizabeth I’s Coronation Procession, Robert E. Stillman
4. Britomart’s Backward Glance in Spenser’s Faerie Queene: Liminal Triumphs/Dark Erotics in Busirane’s Mask of Cupid, Tiffany J. Alkan
5. Spectacle and the Fantasy of Immateriality: Authorship and Magic in John a Kent and John a Cumber, Nora Johnson
6. The Play of Voice: Acknowledgment, Knowledge, and Self-Knowledge in Measure for Measure, Sarah Beckwith
7. Spectacle and Equivocation in Macbeth, Richard C. McCoy
8. Mapping Shakespeare’s Britain, Peter Holland
9. The Absent Triumphator in the 1610 Chester’s Triumph in Honor of Her Prince, Robert W. Barrett, Jr.
10. Have his “carkasse”: The Aftermaths of English Court Masques, Tom Bishop
11. Reading/Genres: On 1630s Masques, Lauren Shohet
Index
Editor’s Foreword
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
1. Antichrist on Page and Stage in the Later Middle Ages, Richard K. Emmerson
2. Staging Antichrist and the Performance of Miracles, Peter Cockett
3. “Nothing more nedeful”: Politics and the Rhetoric of Accommodation in Elizabeth I’s Coronation Procession, Robert E. Stillman
4. Britomart’s Backward Glance in Spenser’s Faerie Queene: Liminal Triumphs/Dark Erotics in Busirane’s Mask of Cupid, Tiffany J. Alkan
5. Spectacle and the Fantasy of Immateriality: Authorship and Magic in John a Kent and John a Cumber, Nora Johnson
6. The Play of Voice: Acknowledgment, Knowledge, and Self-Knowledge in Measure for Measure, Sarah Beckwith
7. Spectacle and Equivocation in Macbeth, Richard C. McCoy
8. Mapping Shakespeare’s Britain, Peter Holland
9. The Absent Triumphator in the 1610 Chester’s Triumph in Honor of Her Prince, Robert W. Barrett, Jr.
10. Have his “carkasse”: The Aftermaths of English Court Masques, Tom Bishop
11. Reading/Genres: On 1630s Masques, Lauren Shohet
Index
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