Performing Environments

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Thinking Site: An Introduction

   1. Thinking Site: An Introduction

      • Susan Bennett, Mary Polito

      Pages 1-13

3. Building Frameworks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. ‘The whole past, the whole time’: Untimely Matter and the Playing Spaces of York

      • Patricia Badir

      Pages 17-35

   3. John Heywood, Henry and Hampton Court Palace

      • Elisabeth Dutton

      Pages 36-55

   4. Playing The Changeling Architecturally

      • Kim Solga

      Pages 56-76

4. Travel and Topography

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Performing Folk at Kenilworth

      • Jim Ellis

      Pages 79-99

   3. Knights and Daze: The Place of Romance in the Queen’s Men’s Repertory

      • Helen Ostovich

      Pages 100-118

   4. Geographies of Performance in the Early Modern Midlands

      • Julie Sanders

      Pages 119-137

5. Psychic Spaces

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Mapping Guild Conflict in the York Passion Plays

      • Kevin Teo

      Pages 141-158

   3. Body, Site and Memory in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament

      • Clare Wright

      Pages 159-179

   4. A Taste of High Life at Elvetham: Elizabethan Progresses and the Rural Consumption of Royal Neverwheres

      • Sarah Crover

      Pages 180-198

6. Crossing Boundaries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199

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   2. ‘With the grace of God at th’entryng of the Brigge’: Crown versus Town and the Giant of London Bridge in Lydgate’s Triumphal Entry of Henry VI

      • Joseph Rodriguez

      Pages 201-221

   3. Cymbeline and the Politics/Poetics of Mobility

      • Amy Scott

      Pages 222-240

   4. Locating The Valiant Scot

      • Vimala C. Pasupathi

      Pages 241-259

7. Back Matter

   Pages 260-271

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This ground-breaking collection explores the assumptions behind and practices for performance implicit in the manuscripts and playtexts of the medieval and early modern eras, focusing on work which engages with performance-oriented research.

• Site specificity
• Early Modern Performance
• Genealogies of performance
• building
• drama
• environment
• Middle Ages
• British and Irish Literature

"This impressive volume makes an important contribution to critical work on memory, history, and performing environments in the medieval and early modern periods. The studies interrogate the volume's theme from a range of perspectives, engaging a variety of different genres and media in illuminating ways." - Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College, USA

• Department of English, University of Calgary, Canada

  Susan Bennett, Mary Polito

Patricia Badir, University of British Columbia, Canada Susan Bennett, Univeristy of Calgary, Canada Susan Crover, University of British Columbia, Canada Elisabeth Dutton, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Jim Ellis, University of Calgary, Canada Helen Ostovich, McMaster University, Canada Mary Polito, University of Calgary, Canada Vimala C. Pasupathi, Hofstra University, USA Joseph Rodriguez, University of Iowa, USA Julie Sanders, University of Nottingham, UK Amy Scott, McGill University, Canada Kim Solga, Queen Mary University of London, UK Kevin Teo, Nagoya University, Japan Clare Wright, University of Kent, UK

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