A CULTURAL HISTORY
OF TRAGEDY
VOLUME 2
A Cultural History of Tragedy
General Editor: Rebecca Bushnell
Volume 1
A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity
Edited by Emily Wilson
Volume 2
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages
Edited by Jody Enders, Theresa Coletti, John T. Sebastian, and Carol Symes
Volume 3
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age
Edited by Naomi Liebler
Volume 4
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Mitchell Greenberg
Volume 5
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire
Edited by Michael Gamer and Diego Saglia
Volume 6
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age
Edited by Jennifer Wallace
CONTENTS
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Theresa Coletti is Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar Teacher at the University of Maryland College Park. She has published widely on medieval drama, medieval womens literary and religious cultures, Chaucer, and medievalism. Her essays have appeared in numerous edited collections and in journals such as Speculum, Exemplaria, ELH, Studies in Philology, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and Studies in the Age of Chaucer. She is the author of Naming the Rose: Eco, Medieval Signs, and Modern Theory (1988) and Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England (2004), and editor of The Digby Mary Magdalene (2018).
Antonio Donato is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queens College, CUNY. He specializes in medieval and Renaissance philosophy. He is the author of Boethius Consolation of Philosophy as a Product of Late Antiquity (2013). His essays have appeared in the British Journal of the History of Philosophy, Classical World, and Traditio.
Jody Enders, Distinguished Professor of French at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of four books on the medieval theater: Rhetoric and the Origins of Medieval Drama (1992), winner of the inaugural Scaglione Prize from the Modern Language Association, The Medieval Theater of Cruelty (1999), Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends (2002), winner of the Barnard Hewitt Prize from the American Society of Theatre Research, and Murder by Accident (2010); plus two books of performance-friendly literary translations destined for medievalists, historians, theater practitioners, and classic comedy lovers: The Farce of the Fart and Other Ribaldries (2011) and Holy Deadlock and Further Ribaldries (2017). A past editor of Theatre Survey and Guggenheim fellow, she has published numerous essays on the interplay of rhetoric, medieval literature, performance theory, and the law.
Erith Jaffe-Berg is a professor of Theatre at the Department of Theatre, Film and Digital Production at the University of California at Riverside. Her research focuses on the commedia dellarte and performances by minority groups in Early Modern Italy. She is the author of Commedia dellArte and the Mediterranean: Charting Journeys and Mapping Others (2015) and The Multilingual Art of Commedia dellArte (2009). She has published essays on early modern performance in various journals and anthologies, including the Bloomsbury Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages (2018). Abiding research interests include the Jewish contribution to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century theater in northern Italy.
John Parker is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Antichrist: From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe (2007), among several book chapters, articles, and reviews. His primary interests include drama from antiquity to the Renaissance, the New Testament, Christian theology, and continental philosophy. He received a Federal Chancellor Scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (19992000) and was awarded the Rome Prize in medieval studies from the American Academy in Rome (20089). Before coming to Virginia he taught at Macalester College and Harvard University.
John T. Sebastian is Vice President for Mission and Ministry and Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is, with Christina M. Fitzgerald, general editor of the Broadview Anthology of Medieval Literature and its spinoff volumes, including an edition of English morality plays. He is also the editor of the TEAMS edition of the Croxton Play of the Sacrament. In addition to his editing work, he has published chapters on medieval drama, the devotional poetry of John Lydgate, and medievalism in video games.
Hannah Skoda is Associate Professor in History at St Johns College, Oxford. She is the author of Medieval Violence: Physical Brutality in Northern France, 12701330 (2012). She has also co-edited Legalism: History and Anthropology (2012) with Paul Dresch, and Legalism: Property and Ownership (2018) with Georgy Kantor and Tom Lambert. She has wide-ranging interests and has published on the history of nostalgia, medieval student misbehavior, Dante studies, and histories of physical impairment.
Christopher Swift is an associate professor of Theater in the Humanities Department at New York City College of Technology, City University of New York. His research focuses on medieval theater technologies, devotional objects, Holy Week processionals, and public performances of penance. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Religion and Theatre, Preternature, TDR, and Theatre Journal. Dr. Swift has been a fellow on a number of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities aimed to develop interdisciplinary curricula among humanities and STEM fields.
Karen Sullivan is Irma Brandeis Professor of Romance Culture and Literature at Bard College. She is the author of The Interrogation of Joan of Arc (1999); Truth and the Heretic: Crises of Knowledge in Medieval French Literature (2005), which won the Modern Language Associations Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Literature; The Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors (2011); and The Danger of Romance: Truth, Fantasy, and Arthurian Fictions (2018), which was supported by a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; as well as numerous essays on Old French and Occitan literature. Much of her work concerns the intersection of history and literature, including in medieval accounts of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Carol Symes is Associate Professor of History, Theatre, and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Educated at Yale and Oxford, she subsequently trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and pursued an acting career while working toward the PhD at Harvard. Her book, A Common Stage: Theatre and Public Life in Medieval Arras
