Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period

John R. Decker is the chairperson of the Department of the History of Art and Design at Pratt Institute.Mitzi Kirkland-Ives is a professor of art history and museum studies in the Department of Art and Design at Missouri State University.

• 1. Introduction: Audiences and Reception: Readers, Listeners, and Viewers 2. To Compliment a Musical Friend: Amateur Musicians and Their Audiences in France, ca. 1650–1700 3. Elizabethan Audience Gaze at History Plays: Liminal Time and Space in Shakespeare’s Richard II 4. The Commedia dell’Arte from Marketplace to Court 5. Spreading the Word: Theatre, Religion and Contagious Performances 6. "Sedicious" Sermons: Preaching, Politics, and Provocation in Reformation England, 1540–1570 7. The Rotterdam Inquisitor and the False Prophet of Antwerp: Religious Disputation and Its Audiences in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries 8. Relational Performances and Audiences in the Prologue of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis 9. George Turberville, Constancy and Plain Style 10. "Assi de doctos como de indoctos": A Poet-Translator Discovers His Audience in the Spain of Philip II 11. Female Audiences and Translations of the Classics in Early Modern Italy 12. Women Are from Venus: Addressing Female Agency with Classical Allegory 13. Domenico Ghirlandaio’s High Altarpiece for Santa Maria Novella and the Pre-Tridentine Audience of Italian Altarpieces 14. Guides Who Know the Way 15. Beyond the Doctrine of Merit: Philips Galle’s Prints of the Sacraments and Works of Mercy