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Staged Normality in Shakespeare's England

✍ Scribed by Rory Loughnane, Edel Semple

Publisher
Springer International Publishing,Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Leaves
303
Series
Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
Edition
1st ed.
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

This book looks at the staging and performance of normality in early modern drama. Analysing conventions and rules, habitual practices, common things and objects, and mundane sights and experiences, this volume foregrounds a staged normality that has been heretofore unseen, ignored, or taken for granted. It draws together leading and emerging scholars of early modern theatre and culture to debate the meaning of normality in an early modern context and to discuss how it might transfer to the stage. In doing so, these original critical essays unsettle and challenge scholarly assumptions about how normality is represented in the performance space. The volume, which responds to studies of the everyday and the material turn in cultural history, as well as to broader philosophical engagements with the idea of normality and its opposites, brings to light the essential role that normality plays in the composition and performance of early modern drama.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Stages of Normality (Rory Loughnane)....Pages 1-29
Front Matter ....Pages 31-31
Circling the Square: Geometry, Masculinity, and the Norms of Antony and Cleopatra (Carla Mazzio)....Pages 33-67
Normal School: Merry Wives and the Future of a Feeling (Elizabeth Hanson)....Pages 69-87
Regulating Time and the Self in Shakespearean Drama (Kristine Johanson)....Pages 89-108
Under the Skin: A Neighbourhood Ethnography of Leather and Early Modern Drama (Julie Sanders)....Pages 109-126
Front Matter ....Pages 127-127
Shakespeare’s Strange Conventionality (Brett Gamboa)....Pages 129-150
Transgressive Normality and Normal Transgression in Sir Thomas More (Edel Semple)....Pages 151-171
‘So like an old tale’: Staging Inheritance and the Lost Child in Shakespeare’s Romances (Michelle M. Dowd)....Pages 173-192
‘Proper’ Men and ‘Tricksy’ Spirits: The Eunuch in Disguise in Twelfth Night and The Tempest (Brinda Charry)....Pages 193-211
Front Matter ....Pages 213-213
Everyday Murder and Household Work in Shakespeare’s Domestic Tragedies (Emma Whipday)....Pages 215-236
Children, Normality, and Domestic Tragedy (Emily O’Brien)....Pages 237-258
Feminine Transgression and Normal Domesticity (Stephen Guy-Bray)....Pages 259-276
Afterword (Frances E. Dolan)....Pages 277-286
Back Matter ....Pages 287-299

✦ Subjects

Literature; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature; British and Irish Literature; Theatre History

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