Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Staging the Renaissance, David Scott Kastan, Peter Stallybrass; Part I The Conditions of Playing; Chapter 2 Civic Rites, City Sites: The Place of the Stage, Steven Mullaney; Chapter 3 Playing and Power, Leonard Tennenhouse; Chapter 4 Censorship and Interpretation, Annabel Patterson; Chapter 5 The Theater of the Idols: Theatrical and Anti-theatrical Discourse, Jonathan V. Crewe; Chapter 6 Boy Actors, Female Roles, and Elizabethan Eroticism, Lisa Jardine; Chapter 7 Women as Spectators, Spectacles, and Paying Customers, Jean E. Howard; Chapter 8 Sodomy and Society: The Case of Christopher Marlowe, Jonathan Goldberg; Chapter 9 What is a Text?, Stephen Orgel; Chapter 10 “The very names of the Persons”: Editing and the Invention of Dramatick Character, Random Cloud; Part II The Plays; Chapter 11 “Tragedies naturally performed”: Kyd’s Representation of Violence, James Shapiro; Chapter 12 The Will to Absolute Play, Stephen J. Greenblatt; Chapter 13 Subversion through Transgression, Jonathan Dollimore; Chapter 14 Alice Arden’s Crime, Catherine Belsey; Chapter 15 Workshop and/as Playhouse, David Scott Kastan; Chapter 16 Ben Jonson and the Publicke Riot, Peggy Knapp; Chapter 17 City Talk: Women and Commodification, Karen Newman; Chapter 18 Pastimes and the Purging of Theater, Leah S. Marcus; Chapter 19 Reading the Body and the Jacobean Theater of Consumption, Peter Stallybrass; Chapter 20 The Logic of the Transvestite, Marjorie Garber; Chapter 21 The Spectre of Resistance, Margaret W. Ferguson; Chapter 22 Italians and Others, Ann Rosalind Jones; Chapter 23 Incest and Ideology, Frank Whigham; Chapter 24 Beatrice-Joanna and the Rhetoric of Love, Sara Eaton;