Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater

Robert Henke is Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, USA, and the author of Pastoral Transformations: Italian Tragicomedy and Shakespeare's Late Plays (1997) and Performance and Literature in the Commedia dell'Arte (2002). With M.A. Katritzky, he is the editor of European Theatre Performance Practice, 1580-1750 (Ashgate, 2014). Eric Nicholson is a Lecturer at Syracuse University in Florence, Italy, where he teaches courses on comedy and theater. In Florence and elsewhere he has directed numerous full-scale productions of plays by Shakespeare, Molière, Flaminio Scala, and others. Their previous Ashgate collection is Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater (2008).

1: Introduction; 1: Systems and Theatergrams; 2: The Taming of the Shrew, Italian Intertexts, and Cultural Mobility; 3: Resources in Common: Shakespeare and Flaminio Scala; 4: “Are You a Comedian?”: The Trunk in Twelfth Night and the Intertheatrical Construction of Character; 2: The Pastoral Zone; 5: Hymen and the Gods on Stage in Shakespeare's As You Like It and Italian Pastoral; 6: Et in Arcadia the Dirty Brides 1; 3: Performance Texts and Costumes; 7: Dido, Boy Diva of Carthage: Marlowe's Dido Tragedy and the Renaissance Actress 1; 8: Forms of Fashion: Material Fabrics, National Characteristics, and the Dramaturgy of Difference on the Early Modern English Stage; 4: Northern and Central European Mobilities; 9: Shakespeare's “portrait of a blinking idiot”: Transnational Reflections 1; 10: English Comedy and Central European Marionette Drama: A Study in Theater Etymology 1; 5: Translation Theory and Practice; 11: Trade in Exile; 12: Found and Lost in Translation; 13: Shakespeare's Untranslatability; 14: Lebedeff, Kendal, Dutt: Three Travelers on the Indian Stage; Epilogue; 15: Early Modern Theater in Motion: The Example of Orpheus