Staged Transgression in Shakespeare’s England

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Stages of Transgression....Pages 1-23
‘On the most Eminent seate thereof is Gouernement Illustrated’: Staging Power in the Lord Mayor’s Show....Pages 24-36
The Transgressive Stage Player....Pages 37-48
‘Ha, Ha, Ha’: Shakespeare and the Edge of Laughter....Pages 49-62
‘Have we done aught amiss?’: Transgression, Indirection and Audience Reception in Titus Andronicus....Pages 63-75
The King’s Three Bodies: Resistance Theory and Richard III....Pages 76-88
Marriage, Politics and Law in The Tragedy of Mariam and The Duchess of Malfi....Pages 89-103
Incapacitated Will....Pages 104-119
Transgression Embodied: Medicine, Religion and Shakespeare’s Dramatized Persons....Pages 120-135
The Taming of the Jew: Spit and the Civilizing Process in The Merchant of Venice....Pages 136-152
‘Edgar I Nothing Am’: Blackface in King Lear....Pages 153-164
Marrying the Dead: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline and The Tempest....Pages 165-179
Speaking Out of Turn: Gender, Language and Transgression in Early Modern England....Pages 180-193
Rethinking Transgression with Shakespeare’s Bawds....Pages 194-208
‘Nothing but pickled cucumbers’: the Longing Wives of Middletonian City Comedy....Pages 209-223
Lady Macbeth and Othello, Convention and Transgression in Early Modern Tragedy....Pages 224-238
‘How to vse your Brothers Brotherly’: Civility, Incivility and Civil War in 3 Henry VI....Pages 239-251
Afterword: Thinking Staged Transgression Literally....Pages 252-259
Back Matter....Pages 260-298