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The essays in Staging the Renaissance show the theatre to be the site of a rich confluence of cultural forces, the place where social meanings are both formed and transformed. The volume unites some of the most challenging issues in contemporary Renaissance studies and some of our best-known critics, including Stephen Orgel, Margaret Ferguson, Catherine Belsey, Jonathan Goldberg, Marjorie Garber, Lisa Jardine, and Jonathan Dollimore-- demonstrating the variety and vitality not only of contemporary criticism, but of Renaissance drama itself.… (más)
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(Intro)
For thirty years, no new, wide-ranging anthology of essays on non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama has appeared to replace R. J. Kaufmann's Elizabethan Drama (1961) or Max Bluestone and Norman Rabkin's Shakespeare's Contemporaries (1962); yet during that time there has been a remarkable quantity of important new work in the field and, perhaps as crucially, a signficant shift in the very ways in which the drama is conceived and approached.
(Part I)
On July 21, 1557, two men were conveyed out of London and ferried across the Thames to a hospital located on the outskirts of Southwark.
The essays in Staging the Renaissance show the theatre to be the site of a rich confluence of cultural forces, the place where social meanings are both formed and transformed. The volume unites some of the most challenging issues in contemporary Renaissance studies and some of our best-known critics, including Stephen Orgel, Margaret Ferguson, Catherine Belsey, Jonathan Goldberg, Marjorie Garber, Lisa Jardine, and Jonathan Dollimore-- demonstrating the variety and vitality not only of contemporary criticism, but of Renaissance drama itself.