Transnational Exchange in Early Modern Theater

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Contents: Introduction, Robert Henke Part I Traveling Actors: Border crossing in the commedia dell' arte, Robert Henke English troupes in early modern Germany: the women, M.A. Katritzky. Part II Transportable Units: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Italian pastoral, Richard Andrews Dramatic bodies and novellesque spaces in Jacobean tragedy and tragicomedy, Melissa Walter. Part III The Question of the Actress: Moral and Theoretical Transnationalisms: Ophelia sings like a prima donna innamorata: Ophelia's mad scene and the Italian female performer, Eric Nicholson Theorizing women's place: Nicholas Poussin, The Rape of the Sabines, and the early modern stage, Jane Tylus. Part IV Performing Alteriety: Doubled National Identity: The Dutch diaspora in English comedy: 1598 to 1618, Christian M. Billing Foreign emotions, Susanne L. Wofford Translated Turks on the early modern stage, Jacques Lezra. Part V Performing a Nation: Transregional Exchanges: Epicene in Edinburgh (1672): city comedy beyond the London stage, Clare McManus Proto-nationalist performatives and trans-theatrical displacement in Henry V, David Schalkwyk Shakespeare on the Indian stage: resistance, recalcitrance, recuperation, Shormishtha Panja. Epilogue: Reading Shakespeare, reading the masks of the Italian commedia: fixed forms and the breath of life, Mace Perlman Select bibliography Index.

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