Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater

Ronda Arab, Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, is the author of Manly Mechanicals on the Early Modern English Stage (2011), an examination of the gender status of working men in Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Michelle M. Dowd is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She is the author of Women’s Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (2009) and The Dynamics of Inheritance on the Shakespearean Stage (forthcoming 2015). Adam Zucker is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of The Places of Wit in Early Modern English Comedy and the co-editor of Localizing Caroline Drama: Politics and Economics of the Early Modern English Stage, 1625-1642.

Introduction Ronda Arab, Michelle M. Dowd, and Adam Zucker Part I: Struggling with the Stage 1. Going Through the Motions: Affects, Machines, and John Ford’s The Broken Heart Patricia Cahill 2. Magnetic Theaters Benedict Robinson 3. Feeling Unhistorical Ellen MacKay 4. Literary Celebrity and Theatrical Culture in Shirley’s Bird in a Cage Allison K. Deutermann Part II: Engendering… 5. Monstrous Teardrops: The Materiality of Early Modern Affection Ian Frederick Moulton 6. "Displeas’d ambitious TONGUE": Lingua and Lingual Duality Lianne Habinek 7. "Come, Eros, Eros!": Re-reading Emotion and Affect in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra Jyostna Singh Part III: …A Nation 8. Wondering in Henry VIII or All is True Tiffany Werth 9. Angelica and Franceschina: The Italianate Characters of Juliet’s Nurse Bianca Finzi-Contini Calabresi 10. The Mirror and the Cage: Queens and Dwarfs at the Early Modern Court Pamela Allen Brown 11. Gold Digger or Golden Girl?: Purifying the Pursuit of Gold in Heywood’s Fair Maid of the West, Part I Jane Hwang Degenhardt Part IV: Theater of a City 12. Civic Affect and Female Political Agency in Sir Thomas More Mario DiGangi 13. Corporate Life in Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday Henry S. Turner 14. Transforming the Younger Son: The Disruptive Affect of the Gentleman-Apprentice in Eastward Ho Ronda Arab 15. Managing Fear: The Commerce in Blackness and the London Lord Mayors’ Shows Ian Smith Afterward Phyllis Rackin