Medieval Afterlives

Daisy Black is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of WolverhamptonKatharine Goodland is a Professor of English at the College of Staten Island, CUNY

"Eclectic and original... Black and Goodland’s collection is the product of an experimental and often enlivening approach to familiar materials."- Early Theatre

• Introduction – Daisy Black and Katharine Goodland Prolegomena1 ‘Where the peaze is, shee shalbe Queene’: REED and the continuing life of medieval dramatic traditions – Peter H. Greenfield Part I: Transforming space2 The Lathom screen and the Magian plays of the Derby companies – Lawrence Manley 3 Promising a storm: anticipation, spectacle, and the ship in the Digby Mary Magdalene and Shakespeare and Wilkins' Pericles, Prince of Tyre – Daisy Black 4 ‘Ay, these were spectacles to please my soul’: satirising schadenfreude in Thomas Kyd’sThe Spanish Tragedy – Katharine Goodland Part II: Transforming character5 Shakespeare’s priests – Jay Zysk 6 Transforming Saint Dunstan on the Elizabethan stage – Gina M. Di Salvo 7 ‘Fals conjecture’: how costume transformed ‘player’ to ‘disguiser’ in late medieval and Renaissance drama – Katie Normington Part III: Transforming tropes 8 Transforming recognition: The Winter’s Tale, Pericles, and the Elevation of the Host – Matthew J. Smith 9 Under the castle, inside the counting house: shelter and exposure on the deathbed in The Castle of Perseverance and The Jew of Malta – Devin Byker 10 The forest palimpsest in As You Like It and the medieval imaginary – Victoria Bladen Afterword – Theresa Coletti Index