Publicity and the Early Modern Stage

Allison K. Deutermann is an associate professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York, USA. She is the author of Listening for Theatrical Form in Early Modern England (2016) and, with András Kiséry, co-editor of Formal Matters: Reading the Materials of English Renaissance Literature (2013). Musa Gurnis is the author of Mixed Faith and Shared Feeling (2018) a co-publication of the University of Pennsylvania Press and the Folger Shakespeare Library. Her articles have appeared in the journals Shakespeare and Shakespeare Studies , as well as in the edited collection Religion and Drama in Early Modern England (2011) . Matt Hunter is Assistant Professor of English at Texas Tech University, USA, where he teaches courses on Shakespeare, early modern literature, and literary criticism. His writing has appeared in Representations , English Literary History , English Literary Renaissance , and The Los Angeles Review of Books . His book manuscript, entitled The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama , considers how early modern plays offer their audiences different styles of talk for presenting themselves in the newly public world of early modern London.

1. Introduction Allison K. Deutermann (Baruch College, CUNY) and Musa Gurnis (Washington University, St Louis).- Part One: People Made Public.-  2. Local Characters Onstage and Off Musa Gurnis (Washington University in Saint Louis).- 3. Bodies Public: The Roaring Girl and the Rise of Celebrity Matthew Hunter (Texas Tech University).- 4. Celebrity No-Show: John Taylor's The Great Eater of Kent Karen Raber (University of Mississippi).- 5. Jonson's Ridicule of Shakespeare in "To the Reader" of The Alchemist James P. Bednarz (Long Island University).- Part Two: Imaginary People and the Social Imaginary.- 6. Fictional Celebrities and the Repertory System Richard Preiss (University of Utah).- 7. Robert Armin's Nest of Ninnies and the Public Punchline Adhaar Noor Desai (Bard College).- 8. Extravagant and Wheeling Characters Allison K. Deutermann (Baruch College, CUNY).- Part Three: Knowing Audiences.- 9. Coriolanus in the Marketplace PiersBrown (Kenyon College).- 10. "Methinks I see the brave Hieronimo!": Dramatic Convention and Audience Experience in the London Commercial Theater Lauren Robertson (Columbia University).- 11. Afterword Joe Roach (Yale University).