Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama

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Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Staging the Renaissance
Part I The Conditions of Playing
	2. Civic Rites, City Sites: The Place of the Stage
	3. Playing and Power
	4. Censorship and Interpretation
	5. The Theater of the Idols: Theatrical and Anti-theatrical Discourse
	6. Boy Actors, Female Roles, and Elizabethan Eroticism
	7. Women as Spectators, Spectacles, and Paying Customers
	8. Sodomy and Society: The Case of Christopher Marlowe
	9. What is a Text?
	10. \"The very names of the Persons\": Editing and the Invention of Dramatick Character
Part II The Plays
	11. \"Tragedies naturally performed\": Kyd\'s Representation of Violence THE SPANISH TRAGEDY (c. 1587)
	12. The Will to Absolute Play THE JEW OF MALTA (1589)
	13. Subversion through Transgression DOCTOR FAUSTUS (c. 1592)
	14. Alice Arden\'s Crime ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM (c. 1590)
	15. Workshop and/as Playhouse THE SHOEMAKER\'S HOLIDAY (1599)
	16. Ben Jonson and the Publicke Riot BEN JONSON\'S COMEDIES
	17. City Talk: Women and Commodification EPICOENE (1609)
	18. Pastimes and the Purging of Theater BARTHOLOMEW FAIR (1614)
	19. Reading the Body and the Jacobean Theater of Consumption THE REVENGER\'S TRAGEDY (1606)
	20. The Logic of the Transvestite THE ROARING GIRL (1608)
	21. The Spectre of Resistance THE TRAGEDY OF MARIAM (1613)
	22. Italians and Others THE WHITE DEVIL (1612)
	23. Incest and Ideology THE DUCHESS OF MALFI (1614)
	24. Beatrice-Joanna and the Rhetoric of Love THE CHANGELING (1622)
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