Medieval Afterlives

Daisy Black is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Wolverhampton Katharine Goodland is a Professor of English at the College of Staten Island, CUNY -- .

Introduction – Daisy Black and Katharine Goodland

Prolegomena

1 ‘Where the peaze is, shee shalbe Queene’: REED and the continuing life of medieval dramatic traditions – Peter H. Greenfield

Part I: Transforming space

2 The Lathom screen and the Magian plays of the Derby companies – Lawrence Manley
3 Promising a storm: anticipation, spectacle, and the ship in the Digby Mary Magdalene and
Shakespeare and Wilkins' Pericles, Prince of Tyre – Daisy Black
4 ‘Ay, these were spectacles to please my soul’: satirising schadenfreude in Thomas Kyd’s
The Spanish Tragedy – Katharine Goodland

Part II: Transforming character

5 Shakespeare’s priests – Jay Zysk
6 Transforming Saint Dunstan on the Elizabethan stage – Gina M. Di Salvo
7 ‘Fals conjecture’: how costume transformed ‘player’ to ‘disguiser’ in late medieval and Renaissance drama – Katie Normington

Part III: Transforming tropes

8 Transforming recognition: The Winter’s Tale, Pericles, and the Elevation of the Host – Matthew J. Smith
9 Under the castle, inside the counting house: shelter and exposure on the deathbed in The Castle of Perseverance and The Jew of Malta – Devin Byker
10 The forest palimpsest in As You Like It and the medieval imaginary – Victoria Bladen

Afterword – Theresa Coletti


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