Performing Environments: Site-Specificity in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Thinking Site: An Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
‘The whole past, the whole time’: Untimely Matter and the Playing Spaces of York....Pages 17-35
John Heywood, Henry and Hampton Court Palace....Pages 36-55
Playing The Changeling Architecturally....Pages 56-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Performing Folk at Kenilworth....Pages 79-99
Knights and Daze: The Place of Romance in the Queen’s Men’s Repertory....Pages 100-118
Geographies of Performance in the Early Modern Midlands....Pages 119-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Mapping Guild Conflict in the York Passion Plays....Pages 141-158
Body, Site and Memory in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament ....Pages 159-179
A Taste of High Life at Elvetham: Elizabethan Progresses and the Rural Consumption of Royal Neverwheres....Pages 180-198
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
‘With the grace of God at th’entryng of the Brigge’: Crown versus Town and the Giant of London Bridge in Lydgate’s Triumphal Entry of Henry VI....Pages 201-221
Cymbeline and the Politics/Poetics of Mobility....Pages 222-240
Locating The Valiant Scot ....Pages 241-259
Back Matter....Pages 260-271