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Abstract: Cosmopolitanism has been a prominent current of thought in philosophy, politics, and art since the eighteenth century.1 Taken at face value, cosmopolitanism, as Pheng Cheah has written, seems "a universal circle of belonging that involves the transcendence of the particularistic and blindly given ties of kinship and country."2 However, if we contextualize the idea within specific historical periods, cosmopolitanism appears Western-derived and based on Enlightenment era notions of modernity.3 As a value system, modernity was initially a local ethos originating in Europe, though as European countries gradually expanded their dominance in the world order in terms of politics, economy, technology, and military power ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: When it was announced that David Bowie was to be involved in the creation of a new musical called Lazarus, which would premiere at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2015, it became the most sold-out ticket in that company's history.1 Its popularity was buoyed by the fact that Ivo van Hove, one of the most successful directors in the contemporary theatre, would direct, and Enda Walsh, the well-known Irish playwright who had recently achieved success adapting the film Once for the stage, would co-author the script. Billed as a sequel to Walter Tevis' 1963 novel The Man Who Fell to Earth, Lazarus continues the saga of the alien Thomas Newton, who is stranded on earth living on a diet of cereal and gin and watching a ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The Goblins whom I now am coniuring vp . . . [are] thin-headed fellowes that liue upon the scraps of inuention and trauell with such vagrant soules, and so like Ghosts in white sheets of paper, that the Statute of Rogues may worthily be sued vpon them, because their wits haue no abiding place, and yet wander without a passe-port. Alas, poore wenches (the nine Muses!) how much are you wrongd, to haue such a number of Bastards lying vpo[n] your hands' But turne them out a begging; or if you cannot be rid of their Riming company (as I thinke it will be very hard) then lay your heauie and immortall curse vpon them, that whatsoeuer they weaue (in the motley-loome of their rustie pates) may like a beggers cloake, be full ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Disease is often communicated through language, and the trajectory of contagion is coterminous with its discursive orbit. Early modern dramatic works, especially the plays of Shakespeare, pay keen attention to the linguistic matrix of disease.1 Shakespeare lived during a time of important shifts in the history of medicine and disease, when leprosy gradually receded to the margins of social and medical concern, giving way to collective anxieties related to the rise of syphilis and occasional plague outbreaks. English Renaissance drama developed alongside this general shift in the medical concerns and disease control measures of English society.2 In this essay, I investigate these parallel developments by exploring ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Peter Platt's compelling new book, Shakespeare's Essays: Sampling Montaigne from Hamlet to The Tempest, is the culmination of over two decades of research on Shakespeare's thinking and his later plays. Platt's first book, Reason Diminished: Shakespeare and the Marvelous (University of Nebraska, 1997), focused on Shakespeare's late plays and the concept of wonder, while his next book, Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox (Routledge, 2009), looked at the way logical opposites could be juxtaposed in order to question such concepts as justice, love, knowledge, and truth, a pervasive intellectual maneuver in the works of both Montaigne and Shakespeare. Most recently, Platt co-edited with Stephen Greenblatt an edition ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Records of the York plays are preserved in the York Memorandum Books, manuscripts that also contain administrative records and charters defining and demonstrating York's politically powerful civic culture. These books offer some rationale for the approach that Emma Lipton follows in Cultures of Witnessing: the now firmly established interdisciplinary method that places the study of law alongside topics more generally explored in departments of language and literature. The York Plays are perhaps the most researched examples of medieval drama, but Lipton's approach does enable her to offer some new insights into their familiar material, particularly the Trial, Crucifixion and Last Judgment plays on which her ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Chapter 19 of Jeffery Kennedy's Staging America: The Artistic Legacy of the Provincetown Players is titled "'Unorganized, Amateur, Purely Experimental,' but Still Standing" (291). The adjectives in this chapter title come from an article that Edna Kenton, chronicler the Provincetown Players, wrote for the Boston Transcript in 1918 to introduce the Players and their goals. These descriptors, however, require much unpacking and contextual detail, for "unorganized," "amateur," and "purely experimental," when taken at face value, cannot explain the positive connotations of such goals nor the work required to keep such goals intact. Enter Jeffrey Kennedy, who is more than up for the task of analyzing the complex history ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Following the Reconquest's end in 1492, Spain expelled the Jews and Muslims, forcing those remaining to convert to Christianity. At first, subjects suspected of religious recidivism were barred from honors and access to power, some becoming victims of the Inquisition. As the sixteenth century progressed, statutes targeted their descendants (known, respectively, as conversos and Moriscos): any hint of unclean heritage, or "bad blood," could imperil the greater good. Conversos, being white and relatively assimilated, were perceived as especially threatening to the religious establishment for their potential to pass as "Old" Christians. Although many Moriscos were also white, they were less integrated into the larger ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In this confident and overdue analysis of Eugene O'Neill's staged wives, Beth Wynstra reminds us that dramatizing shabby behaviors can be a form of inquiry rather than a revelation of one's own depravity. The application of this truism to wives in O'Neill, however, turns out to be tricky: they do seem a sour and conniving lot, and O'Neill himself was a lousy husband, serially. Thus, as Wynstra observes, the tradition of dismissing these characters as "undependable," "dangerous," "predatory," "bitches," and, in a depressingly Medieval twofer, "not only lustful but dishonest" (13). These were the judgments both of 1980s feminists troubled by behaviors of O'Neill's stage-wives and of earlier critics who had discerned ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Scripts of Blackness puts English, French, and Spanish early modern literatures in conversation with each other. Its comparatist method showcases the history of the African diaspora in each country's colonial development. Noémie Ndiaye explores what she calls "the invention of performative blackness" (6) in early modern Europe by paying attention to archival material of words and images that reveals a common narrative: blackness becomes transnational and intercolonial, as she calls it. Early modern slavery itself was the first transnational institution in the Atlantic world, and blackness was its embodiment.The introductory chapter analyzes the lexicogical commonalities of the word race in English, Spanish and ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In Shaping Dance Canons: Criticism, Aesthetics, and Equity, Kate Mattingly offers an archival and autoethnographic analysis of how dance criticism has provided the frameworks within which dance history, careers, and curricula have developed and thus shaped the dance field. It engages a number of ongoing discussions in the field of dance, from the relationship between the moving body of dance and writing about dance; to the evolution of values and orientations in dance curricula; to the emergence of digital dance performance; to the tension between critic and artist, as well as the role of racial bias that culls the potential of dance criticism to reify a more racially inclusive span of dance performance. It also ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Julie Stone Peters's expansive, exciting, and richly researched book, Law as Performance, opens arrestingly with an account of an aborted trial by combat at Tothill Fields, Westminster, in 1571. The truth was that the parties had settled their legal dispute the day before. But the Queen decreed that the ritual of the trial must go on nonetheless, and entertain the gathered audience—but only for the plaintiffs to fail to show up, and for the event to fail to deliver on the expectations aroused. "This was clearly theatre," Peters writes, "but it was also law" (3). This vivid recounting of a spectacular event simulating a judicial arbitration places law in the wider context of play and playing in London—the whole ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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