From Page to Performance: Essays in Early English Drama

From Page to Performance......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Abbreviations......Page 9
Introduction......Page 10
Notes......Page 20
The Mass as Performance Text......Page 22
Notes......Page 31
From Mappa Mundi to Theatrum Mundi— The World as Stage in Early English Drama......Page 34
Notes......Page 54
Asleep Onstage......Page 59
Notes......Page 83
Appendix......Page 86
Acting Mary— The Emotional Realism of the Mature Virgin in the N-Town Plays......Page 92
Notes......Page 104
The Performance of Some Wakefield Master Plays on the University of Illinois Campus......Page 106
The Problem with Mrs. Noah— The Search for Performance Credibility in the Chester Noah's Flood Play......Page 116
Notes......Page 130
The Theaters of Everyman......Page 134
Drama as Metaphor......Page 136
The Theater of the World......Page 144
The Theater of the Memory......Page 147
The Theater of Salvation......Page 149
The Theater of the Body......Page 152
Notes......Page 155
"My Name is Worship"— Masquerading Vice in Medwall's Nature......Page 157
Notes......Page 178
Drama and the Humanist Curriculum......Page 184
College Entertainments......Page 187
University Plays......Page 189
Notes......Page 196
English Chronicle Contexts for Shakespeare's Death of Richard II......Page 200
Notes......Page 221
Family by Death— Stage Images in Titus Andronicus and The Winter's Tale......Page 225
Notes......Page 235
Bearing "A Wary Eye"— Ludic Vengeance and Doubtful Suicide in Hamlet......Page 238
Notes......Page 253
Contributors......Page 257
B......Page 260
D......Page 261
G......Page 262
L......Page 263
N......Page 264
S......Page 265
W......Page 266
Z......Page 267