Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theater

Deborah Uman is Associate Professor of English at St. John Fisher College, USA. Sara Morrison is Assistant Professor of English at William Jewell College, USA.

Chapter 1 Setting the Stage, Deborah Uman, Sara Morrison; Part I Petrarchan Lovers in Performance; Chapter 2 Double Exposure: Gazing at Male Fantasy in Shakespearean Comedy, Grant Williams; Chapter 3 Petrarchan Desire, the Female Ghost, and The Winter’s Tale, Katherine R. Kellett; Chapter 4 Dismembering Rhetoric and Lively Action in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Elizabeth Williamson; Part II Staging Blazonic Violence; Chapter 5 Transforming Ovid: Images of Violence, Vulnerability, and Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Lisa S. Starks-Estes; Chapter 6 Embodying the Blazon: Performing and Transforming Pain in Measure for Measure and the Duchess of Malfi, Sara Morrison; Part III Dramatizing Dismemberment; Chapter 7 “Limbs mangled and torn asunder”: Dismemberment, Theatricality, and the Blazon in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, Patricia Marchesi; Chapter 8 The Cuckold’s Blazon: Dismemberment and Domesticity in Arden of Faversham and A Woman Killed with Kindness, Ariane M. Balizet; Chapter 9 “Ay me, this object kills me!”: Julie Taymor’s Cinematic Blazon in Titus, Thomas P. Anderson; Part IV Historical Reenactments; Chapter 10 By the Book: Blazoning the Subject in Shakespeare’s History Plays, Joseph M. Ortiz; Chapter 11 The Blazon and the Theater of War: The Wars of the Roses and The Plantagenets, Lisa Dickson; Chapter 12 “They use violence to him”: Dismembering the Body Politic in The Rebellion of Naples, Erin E. Kelly; Part V Witnessing the Blazon; Chapter 13 Dissection, Pregnancy, and the Limits of Knowledge in Early Modern Midwifery Treatises and ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Sara D. Luttfring; Chapter 14 The garments of Posthumus”: Identifying the Non-Responsive Body in Cymbeline, Nancy Simpson-Younger; Chapter 15 Blazons of Desire and War in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Cora Fox;