Changeling: The State of Play

Gordon McMullan is Professor of English and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre at King’s College London, UK. He is a general editor of Arden Early Modern Drama and a general textual editor of the Norton Shakespeare, 3E. His publications include The Politics of Unease in the Plays of John Fletcher (1994), the Arden 3 edition of Henry VIII (2000), Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing (2007) and Antipodal Shakespeare (2018).Kelly Stage is Associate Professor of English and Director the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Her recent publications include Producing Early Modern London: A Comedy of Urban Space, 1598-1616 (2018) and an edition of Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s The Roaring Girl (2019).

A valuable and needed addition to the Arden Shakespeare State of Play series … This engaging volume offers a context to the play’s critical, textual, and performance history, capturing [its] complexities and ambiguities.

• List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface Series Preface Introduction Kelly Stage (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) and Gordon McMullan (King's College London, UK)Part One Spaces and Places1 Space, Gender and the Rules of Movement in The Changeling Jean E. Howard (Columbia University, USA)2 Chang(el)ing Spaces: Dramatic Forms of Worlding in Late Jacobean England Ina Habermann (University of Basel, Switzerland)Part Two Collaboration and the Hospital Plot3 A Secret Within the Castle: William Rowley and The Changeling David Nicol (Dalhousie University, Canada)4 Isabella Douglas Bruster (University of Texas at Austin, USA)Part Three States of Mind5 ‘The Pleasure of Your Bedlam’: Mismanaging Insanity in The Changeling Pascale Drouet (University of Poitiers, France)6 Passions, Affections and Instinct in The Changeling Jesse Lander (University of Notre Dame, USA)Part Four Disabilities7 The Changeling’s Phantom Limbs Karen Sawyer Marsalek (St Olaf College, USA)8 Disability Representation and Theatrical Form in The Changeling and The Nice Valour Katherine Schaap Williams (University of Toronto, Canada)Part Five Actor and Audience in Jacobean Performance9 The Changeling, The Boy Actor and Female Subjectivity Lucy Munro (King's College London, UK)10 Witnessing at the Phoenix: Early Modern Audiences at The Changeling Jennifer A. Low (Florida Atlantic University, USA)Part Six Rape and the Female Body in Contemporary Performance11 ‘What Would a Foreign Woman Be?’: Sexual Borderlands, Hospitality, and ‘Forgetting Parentage’ in The Changeling on Film Courtney Lehmann (University of the Pacific, USA)12 Feminist Staging in Brave Spirits’ Changeling Musa Gurnis (Independent Scholar) and Charlene V. Smith (Brave Spirits Theatre, USA)Selected Bibliography Index