Early Modern Drama in Performance : Essays in Honor of Lois Potter.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (204 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Dramatic Verse and Early Modern Playgoers in Marlowe's Time -- 2 The Usurer's Theatrical Body -- 3 Theater of Anatomy -- 4 "Know You This Ring?" -- 5 Editing and Staging The Revenger's Tragedy -- 6 The "Most Unsavoury Similes" and Henry IV, Part One -- 7 Shakespeare and Cognitive Vision -- 8 Shakespeare's Conception of Tragedy -- 9 Shakespeare or Not Shakespeare? -- 10 Un/natural Perspectives -- 11 Reading, Recitation, and Entertainments -- 12 The Power of Shakespeare's Word in Twentieth-Century Prague -- 13 Showtime -- Index -- Contributors.
This collection brings together essays on the topics of Shakespeare, theater history, and early English drama in performance by scholars influenced by the pioneering work of Lois Potter.