Staging And Stage Decor: Early Modern Spanish Theater

The new parameters of a global world in the early modern period gave rise to an expansion of movement that facilitated spatial and social mobility for women of different social ranks. Through their reexamination of archival documents and travel narratives,...

This book explores some of the many instances of poisoning in early modern plays. It considers the practical, legal and epistemological issues aspects of poison plays and analyses the cultural work they perform, which includes questions related to race,...

<P><EM>Kingship, Madness, and Masculinity</EM> examines representations of mad kings in early modern English theatrical texts and performance practices. </P><P></P><P>Although there have been numerous volumes...

Argues that playwrights looked to fencing theory and performance for physical cues and formal structure.