Sexuality, Humanism, and Ephemeral Performances in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Ralph J. Hexter
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512828542
Pub Date: December 2025
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Through his excavation of two fifteenth-century Latin comedies about the entrapment of a priest who is eager for sexual activity with men—Janus the Priest and The False Hypocrite—Ralph Hexter shows how characters deployed coded language to navigate same-sex relationships. Includes the first published English translations of both plays.
Benjamin VanWagoner shows how early modern maritime drama connected English venturing to economic vulnerability, helping to develop the economic logic that would come to be codified as risk. In revealing this process, Imperial Ventures demonstrates how risk became a perverse instrument for justifying Anglophone imperialism.
In The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays Stephen Orgel brings together twelve essays that consider the complex nature of Shakespearean texts, which often include errors or confusions, and the editorial and interpretive strategies for dealing with them in commentary or performance.
Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England
John Kuhn
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512825091
Pub Date: December 2024
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
Examining dozens of plays depicting common tropes of pagan ritual—magical conjurations, oracular prophecies, barbaric triumphal parades, and group suicides—Making Pagans shows how early modern theatrical practice helped construct the category of “pagan” as a tool of European self-definition and colonial ambition.
Bringing early modern spiritual autobiographies and conversion plays into conversation with performance theory, Holly Crawford Pickett investigates the techniques that serial converts used to stage and justify their multiple conversions, showing how the genres and conventions associated with conversion shaped the very experience of conversion itself.
Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race
Noémie Ndiaye
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826074
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn blackness into a racial category, that is, into a type of difference justifying emerging social hierarchies and power relations in a new world order driven by colonialism and capitalism.
Staging Race Between Early Modern England and Spain
Emily Weissbourd
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512822908
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Through readings of plays by Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and their contemporaries, as well as Spanish picaresque fiction and its English translations, Emily Weissbourd argues that the context of the Atlantic slave trade is indispensable to understanding race in early modern Spanish and English literature alike.
Affect, Biopolitics, and the Realignment of the Repertoire, 1780-1800
Daniel O'Quinn
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9781512823110
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Hardcover
376 Pages
In Corrosive Solace, Daniel O’Quinn argues that the loss of the American colonies instantiated a complex reorganization in sociability and politics in the British metropole that has had long-lasting effects on British national and imperial culture, which can be seen and analyzed within its performative repertoire.
