{"title":"Female Masquers and Ambiguity in Timon of Athens","authors":"E. Kolkovich","doi":"10.1086/727041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/727041","url":null,"abstract":"s","PeriodicalId":53676,"journal":{"name":"Renaissance Drama","volume":"1 1","pages":"135 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139344293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imaginary Puissance: Historicizing “Setting” and Discourses of Control","authors":"Kristen Poole","doi":"10.1086/727185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/727185","url":null,"abstract":"t his essay takes up a literary concept that is so familiar it might seem trite: the idea of setting . Over the last century or so, setting has migrated from a relatively new literary term that was introduced to high school and college students to a concept that is taught to beginner readers at the start of literacy education. (That has been the trajectory of the term in the United States, at least.) Taught to us at a very young age, setting has become so ingrained in our processing of narrative that we most likely take this awareness for granted. But as with most concepts that have become naturalized to the point of invisibility, setting is not value-neutral. The idea of setting emerges from a particular historical moment and discourse, and it carries forth certain assumptions — ideological, aesthetic, narratological — about the workings of story. A survey of educational materials about setting suggests that one of its implied values is stability, or a distinct sense of location and emplacement. We might consider, for example, this de fi nition from the online source Literary Devices: “ Setting is a literary device that allows the writer of a narrative to establish the time, location, and environment in which it takes place . . . . The setting of a narrative or story helps the reader picture clear and relevant details. In addition, setting enhances the development of a story ’ s plot and characters by providing a distinct background. ” 1 The modern concept of setting is about clarity of image in the mind ’ s eye. And it is not just that a story ’ s background is distinct in itself; there is an implied distinction between characters/agents and background/environment. Characters exist within a setting but are ontologically","PeriodicalId":53676,"journal":{"name":"Renaissance Drama","volume":"69 1","pages":"159 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139344671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tamburlaine, Able-Bodiedness, and the Skills of the Early Modern Player","authors":"E. D. Gainey","doi":"10.1086/727039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/727039","url":null,"abstract":"t his essay highlights the idealization of able-bodiedness in early modern playing, a crucial topic in the growing scholarship on disability and early modern drama that has developed in recent years. Allison Hobgood and David Houston Wood ’ s foundational work on early modern disability studies has helped frame disability as not an anachronism to early modern England but an “ operational identity category ” in the sense that mentally and physically impaired bodies are quite familiarly stigmatized, devalued, and othered across a vast array of period drama, prose, and poetry. 1 Elizabeth B. Bearden has similarly interro-gated the “ norming effects ” that period literature ’ s frequent deployment of categories like “ natural ” and “ ideal ” institute — categories that, for Bearden, mark mentally and physically impaired bodies as deviant from an able-bodied standard. 2 More recent work on disability and early modern drama presents the stage","PeriodicalId":53676,"journal":{"name":"Renaissance Drama","volume":"35 1","pages":"111 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139345364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Against Editing “Whitely”: Restoring Shakespeare’s Interracial Comedic Couple to Love’s Labour’s Lost","authors":"Scott Maisano","doi":"10.1086/725195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725195","url":null,"abstract":"t his essay shows how anti-Black prejudice, especially misogynoir, led to the editing out of a Black woman — or rather, a fi gure racialized and gendered as such — from the Shakespearean canon of characters and subsequently to the loss of what would have been the playwright ’ s most visible, if not only, interracial comedic couple. 1 The signi fi cance of an interracial comedic couple becomes apparent when we consider how this couple is featured in","PeriodicalId":53676,"journal":{"name":"Renaissance Drama","volume":"51 1","pages":"55 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45424123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Botched Labor and Secondhand Craft in Arden of Faversham","authors":"Margo Kolenda-Mason","doi":"10.1086/725175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725175","url":null,"abstract":"chival research in this essay was made financially possible by the Rackham Graduate the Medieval and Early Modern Studies program at the University of Michigan. I wish ate Kelsey Staples, Steven Freeth, Matthew Davies, Jane Malcolm-Davies, Robin Neilliam Ingram, and Rebecca Chung for generously sharing their knowledge of the botchggesting potential sites of inquiry to help bring them out of the shadows. I am also grateael Schoenfeldt, Linda Gregerson, PeggyMcCracken, and Catherine Sanok; participants 1 Renaissance Society of America, 2021Modern Language Association, and 2020 Shakeociation of America conferences; andWilliamWest and the anonymous reader atRenaisa for their helpful feedback on earlier versions of this essay. Downame,A guide to the godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life (London: Printed by Felix [and William Stansby] for Ed: Weuer & W: Bladen at the north dore of Pauls, 1622). n of Faversham, ed. Catherine Richardson (London: Arden Shakespeare, 2022), 1.24–29.","PeriodicalId":53676,"journal":{"name":"Renaissance Drama","volume":"51 1","pages":"29 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41566870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Textual Transmission and the Enterprising Plagiarist: George Powell, The Treacherous Brothers, and The Dumb Knight","authors":"C. Cathcart","doi":"10.1086/725178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725178","url":null,"abstract":"t his essay tells a story. It features a tragedy of 1690 — George Powell ’ s The Treacherous Brothers — in which the author commandeers long passages of dialogue from plays fi rst printed between 1602 and 1680 and uses those passages to fl esh out the speeches of his own characters. At least eight such plays contribute to the text of The Treacherous Brothers . In examining Powell ’ s practice, I draw special attention to one of these sources: Lewis Machin and Gervase Markham ’ s The Dumb Knight . This comedy of 1607 or 1608 supplied the plot — and frequently the words — with which Powell presents his play ’ s cru-cial deception: a trick that induces the King of Cyprus to believe that his Queen has been unfaithful. I examine a speech in which Powell melds his fi rst appropriation from The Dumb Knight with another, from John Marston ’ s Antonio ’ s Revenge . The fi rst line of that speech — “ Night Clad in black, mourns for the loss of day ” — careered across the seventeenth century. Its appearances in The Dumb Knight and The Treacherous Brothers constitute two moments in what was a sustained progress featuring not only dramatic dialogue but also erotic narrative verse, acrostic tribute, and a sequence of miscellanies. That single web of in fl uence and appropriation offers a vivid illustration of Powell ’ s preference for material that itself possessed a complex intertextual history. It points to the sources and the afterlife of The Dumb Knight as subjects of interest in their own right. And it sketches a transmission history that may be val-ued and appreciated on its own terms, prioritizing neither the origin, the end-point, nor the various intervening stations. These claims re fl ect the threefold subject of this essay. First, it is a tale of Powell ’ s acquisitive practice, and in that","PeriodicalId":53676,"journal":{"name":"Renaissance Drama","volume":"51 1","pages":"89 - 108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42312809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Botany of Colonization in John Fletcher’s The Island Princess","authors":"Roya Biggie","doi":"10.1086/722938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722938","url":null,"abstract":"et on Tidore and Ternate, John Fletcher’s 1621 colonial romance, The Island Princess, looks back to Portugal’s occupation of the islands. The Malukan archipelago, also known as the Spice Islands, attracted European colonizers and merchants because of their coveted natural resources, including cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon—plants and spices rumored to cure a number of ailments and increase longevity. By the time Fletcher staged his play at court, plants traversed continents with increasing frequency; Londa Schiebinger estimates that, between 1550 and 1700, the number of plants known to Europeans quadrupled. In","PeriodicalId":53676,"journal":{"name":"Renaissance Drama","volume":"50 1","pages":"159 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42713396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}