Henke - A Cultural History of Theatre in the Early Modern Age

A Cultural History of Theatre

General Editors: Christopher B. Balme and Tracy C. Davis

Volume 1

A Cultural History of Theatre in Antiquity

Edited by Martin Revermann

Volume 2

A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages

Edited by Jody Enders

Volume 3

A Cultural History of Theatre in the Early Modern Age

Edited by Robert Henke

Volume 4

A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment

Edited by Mechele Leon

Volume 5

A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Empire

Edited by Peter W. Marx

Volume 6

A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age

Edited by Kim Solga

for Tom Postlewait,
maestro di color che sanno

Tom Bishop is Professor and Head of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder (1996), the translator of Ovids Amores (2003), editor of Shakespeares Pericles, Prince of Tyre for the Internet Shakespeare, and a general editor of The Shakespearean International Yearbook. He has published articles on Elizabethan music, Shakespeare, Jonson, Australian literature and other topics, and is currently writing a book on Shakespeares Theatre Games.

Pavel Drbek is Professor of Drama and Theatre Practice at the University of Hull. His research interests are in Shakespeare, early modern European theatre, drama translation, and theatre theory. He has published on translations of Shakespeare in esk pokusy o Shakespeara (translated as Czech Attempts at Shakespeare, 2012), on John Fletcher (Fletcherian Dramatic Achievement: The Mature Plays of John Fletcher, 2010), on seventeenth-century English comedy in Germany, on early modern puppet theatre, and on theatre structuralism (collaborating with the StruG Project, Masaryk University). He is an opera librettist, playwright and translator. From 2003 to 2015 he was Artistic Director of the Ensemble Opera Diversa, a professional music and modern opera company based in Brno, Czech Republic.

Robert Henke is Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Pastoral Transformations: Italian Tragicomedy and Shakespeares Late Plays (1997), Performance and Literature in the Commedia dellArte (2002), and Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theater and Performance (2015). With Eric Nicholson, he has co-edited two essay collections produced by the Theater Without Borders research group: Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater (2008) and Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater (2014). He is now writing a book on Shakespeare and Italian early modern theatre. Since 2014, he has been the Co-director of the Washington University Prison Education Project.

Blair Hoxby is Professor of English at Stanford University. His most recent publications are What Was Tragedy? Theory and the Early Modern Canon (2015), honourable mention for the Renaissance Society of Americas Phyllis Goodhart Gordon Book Prize and, as co-editor, Milton in the Long Restoration (2016). He is currently writing a monograph on allegorical drama and editing three collections: Darkness Visible: Tragedy in the Enlightenment; Trans-Atlantic Tragedy: Theatre, Enlightenment, and Revolution; and Opera and Tragedy: From Absolutism to Enlightenment. He has published essays on tragedy, opera, allegorical drama, Jesuit school theater, early modern acting, and the writings of Milton and Dryden.

Stefan Hulfeld is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Vienna. He was born and educated in Switzerland, graduating in Theatre Studies and German Literature from the University of Berne in 1996. His doctoral thesis in the field of eighteenth-century theatre history, entitled Zhmung der Masken, Wahrung der Gesichter, was published in 2000. His second book, Theatergeschichtsschreibung als kulturelle Praxis, published in 2007, is a study in theatre historiography from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Further publications include the chapter Modernist Theatre in the Cambridge Companion to Theatre History (edited by David Wiles and Christine Dymkowski in 2013) and an edition of the Scenari Corsiniani, published in 2014 under the title Scenari pi scelti distrioni.

Friedemann Kreuder is Professor for Theatre Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. He has published books about the theatre of the German director Klaus Michael Grber (Formen des Erinnerns im Theater Klaus Michael Grbers, 2002) and the bourgeois theatre of the eighteenth century (Spielrume der Identitt in Theaterformen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Tbingen 2010), and articles about the theatre of Richard Wagner and medieval passion plays. He is currently running a research project on Theatre between reproduction and transgression of body-based distinction.

Erika T. Lin is an Associate Professor in the PhD Program in Theatre at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Materiality of Performance, which won the 2013 David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies. Her essays have appeared in Theatre Journal, New Theatre Quarterly, and various edited collections. She is currently writing a book on seasonal festivities and early modern commercial theatre, a project supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Long-Term Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Ellen MacKay is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She was director of the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities at Indiana University. She is the author of Persecution, Plague and Fire: Fugitive Histories of the Stage in Early Modern England (2011), and numerous chapters and articles on theatre history and the things that imperfectly preserve it, including forgeries, tchotchkes, and heritage environments. She is currently completing a study of the audience as a crypto-equatic collectivity in early modern England.

Karen Newman is Owen Walker 33 Professor of Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Brown University. She has written widely on early modern English and continental letters and culture and on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama. Her books include Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama (1991); Fetal Positions: Individualism, Science, Visuality (1997); Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris (2007) and Essaying Shakespeare (2009). Recent collections include Early Modern Cultures of Translation, co-edited with Jane Tylus (2015), and This Distracted Globe: Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature, edited with Jonathan Goldberg and Marcie Frank (2016). She is currently working on early modern translation and on the reception of Shakespeare in Europe.