Transnational Connections in Early Modern Theatre

M. A. Katritzky is Barbara Wilkes Research Fellow in Theatre Studies and Director, The Centre for Research into Gender and Otherness in the Humanities, at The Open UniversityPavel Drábek is Professor of Drama and Theatre Practice in the School of the Arts at the University of Hull

'What emerges in this volume, the third from the Theater without Borders collective, is a dynamic imageof performance traditions spilling into one another in constant dislocation, reorienting early modern performance toward its contact zones.'SEL review

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction – Pavel Drábek and M. A. KatritzkyPart I: West1 If the shoe fits, or the truth in pinking – Natasha Korda2 Freedom and constraint in transnational comedy: The 'jest unseen' of love letters in Two Gentlemen of Verona and El perro del hortelano – Susanne L. Wofford3 'La voluntad jamás permite señor': Transnational versions of cross-class desire in Cardenio and Mujeres y criados – Barbara Fuchs4 The African ambassador's travels: Playing black in late seventeenth-century France and Spain – Noémie NdiayePart II: North5 Migration and drama: Amsterdam 1617 – Nigel Smith6 London and The Hague, 1638: Performing quacks at court – M. A. Katritzky7 'Why, sir, are there other heauens in other countries?': The English Comedy as a transnational style – Pavel Drábek8 The Re-Inspired and Revived Bernardon: Metamorphoses of early modern comedy in eighteenth-century bourgeois theatre – Friedemann KreuderPart III: South9 Northern lights and shadows: Transcultural encounters in early modern Italian theatre Eric Nicholson10 Representations of female power: Musical spectacle at the Paris court of Maria de’ Medici, the Italian Minerva of France – Janie Cole11 Ebrei and Turchi performing in early modern Venice and Mantua – Erith Jaffe-Berg12 Ragozine’s beheading: Dramatic and civil logics of the European state-form – Jacques LezraAfterword – Robert HenkeBibliographyIndex