Henry S. Turner is Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is the author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580-1630 (Oxford, 2006), and Shakespeare's Double Helix (Continuum, 2008). He is also editor of The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2002) and co-editor of the book series "Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity " at Ashgate Press. His essays have appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Renaissance Drama, Configurations, Isis, South Central Review, differences, and postmedieval. His work has been supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

a nuanced state-of-the-field publication, but also -- and more importantly -- as a map of where we might go next if we're willing to put the tools of theater history, performance studies, and critical theory into conversation ... Early Modern Theatricality advances a form of critical inquiry that is both historically meticulous and theoretically sophisticated.

• List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1: Henry S. Turner: Generalization 2: Laura Weigert: Stage 3: Richard Preiss: Interiority 4: Peter Womack: Off-stage 5: Bruce R. Smith: Scene 6: Paul Menzer: Lines 7: Stephen Guy-Bray: Source 8: William N. West: Intertheatricality 9: Evelyn Tribble: Skill 10: Gina Bloom: Games 11: Erika T. Lin: Festivity 12: Scott A. Trudell: Occasion 13: Mary Thomas Crane: Optics 14: Joel Altman: Ekphrasis 15: Jeremy Lopez: Dumb show 16: Ellen MacKay: Indecorum 17: Madhavi Menon: Desire 18: Simon Palfrey: Formaction 19: Scott Maisano: Now 20: Michael Witmore: Eventuality 21: Paul A. Kottman: Duel 22: Julia Reinhard Lupton: Hospitality 23: Jonathan Gil Harris: Becoming-Indian 24: Robert Henke: Poor 25: Susanne L. Wofford: Foreign 26: Anston Bosman: Mobility 27: Phil Withington: Honestas 28: Ann Baynes Coiro: Reading 29: Blair Hoxby: Passions Index of Plays General Index

Henry S. Turner is Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is the author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580-1630 (Oxford, 2006), and Shakespeare's Double Helix (Continuum, 2008). He is also editor of The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2002) and co-editor of the book series "Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity " at Ashgate Press. His essays have appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Renaissance Drama, Configurations, Isis, South Central Review, differences, and postmedieval. His work has been supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

a nuanced state-of-the-field publication, but also -- and more importantly -- as a map of where we might go next if we're willing to put the tools of theater history, performance studies, and critical theory into conversation ... Early Modern Theatricality advances a form of critical inquiry that is both historically meticulous and theoretically sophisticated.

• List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1: Henry S. Turner: Generalization 2: Laura Weigert: Stage 3: Richard Preiss: Interiority 4: Peter Womack: Off-stage 5: Bruce R. Smith: Scene 6: Paul Menzer: Lines 7: Stephen Guy-Bray: Source 8: William N. West: Intertheatricality 9: Evelyn Tribble: Skill 10: Gina Bloom: Games 11: Erika T. Lin: Festivity 12: Scott A. Trudell: Occasion 13: Mary Thomas Crane: Optics 14: Joel Altman: Ekphrasis 15: Jeremy Lopez: Dumb show 16: Ellen MacKay: Indecorum 17: Madhavi Menon: Desire 18: Simon Palfrey: Formaction 19: Scott Maisano: Now 20: Michael Witmore: Eventuality 21: Paul A. Kottman: Duel 22: Julia Reinhard Lupton: Hospitality 23: Jonathan Gil Harris: Becoming-Indian 24: Robert Henke: Poor 25: Susanne L. Wofford: Foreign 26: Anston Bosman: Mobility 27: Phil Withington: Honestas 28: Ann Baynes Coiro: Reading 29: Blair Hoxby: Passions Index of Plays General Index

Henry S. Turner is Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is the author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580-1630 (Oxford, 2006), and Shakespeare's Double Helix (Continuum, 2008). He is also editor of The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2002) and co-editor of the book series "Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity " at Ashgate Press. His essays have appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Renaissance Drama, Configurations, Isis, South Central Review, differences, and postmedieval. His work has been supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

a nuanced state-of-the-field publication, but also -- and more importantly -- as a map of where we might go next if we're willing to put the tools of theater history, performance studies, and critical theory into conversation ... Early Modern Theatricality advances a form of critical inquiry that is both historically meticulous and theoretically sophisticated.

• List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1: Henry S. Turner: Generalization 2: Laura Weigert: Stage 3: Richard Preiss: Interiority 4: Peter Womack: Off-stage 5: Bruce R. Smith: Scene 6: Paul Menzer: Lines 7: Stephen Guy-Bray: Source 8: William N. West: Intertheatricality 9: Evelyn Tribble: Skill 10: Gina Bloom: Games 11: Erika T. Lin: Festivity 12: Scott A. Trudell: Occasion 13: Mary Thomas Crane: Optics 14: Joel Altman: Ekphrasis 15: Jeremy Lopez: Dumb show 16: Ellen MacKay: Indecorum 17: Madhavi Menon: Desire 18: Simon Palfrey: Formaction 19: Scott Maisano: Now 20: Michael Witmore: Eventuality 21: Paul A. Kottman: Duel 22: Julia Reinhard Lupton: Hospitality 23: Jonathan Gil Harris: Becoming-Indian 24: Robert Henke: Poor 25: Susanne L. Wofford: Foreign 26: Anston Bosman: Mobility 27: Phil Withington: Honestas 28: Ann Baynes Coiro: Reading 29: Blair Hoxby: Passions Index of Plays General Index