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Situating performance in early modern England

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Matthew J.Smith, Performance and Religion in Early Modern England: Stage, Cathedral, Wagon, Street. ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019, pp. xi-xiii + 388, ISBN 9780268104658.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2020

Adrian Streete
Adrian Streete*
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Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Religion, 4 University Gardens, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ. Email: [email protected]
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British Catholic History , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , May 2020 , pp. 85 - 93
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4 On rhetoric, pedagogy, and performance see Enterline, Lynn, Shakespeare’s Schoolroom: Rhetoric, Discipline, Emotion (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, esp. 33-61.

5 See for example Smith, Molly, ‘The Theater and the Scaffold: Death as Spectacle in The Spanish Tragedy’, Studies in English Literature, 32:2 (1992): 217–232CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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7 A seminal essay in this regard is Aers, David, ‘A Whisper in the Ear of Early Modernists; or, Reflections on Literary Critics Writing the ‘History of the Subject’, in David Aers ed. Culture and History 1350-1600 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992), 177–202Google Scholar. See also Simpson, James, The Oxford English Literary History. Volume 2, 1350-1547: Reform and Cultural Revolution (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)Google Scholar, and Gordon McMullan and David Matthews eds. Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

8 The book is part of Notre Dame’s ‘ReFormations’ series edited by David Aers, Sarah Beckwith, and James Simpson, where the imperative to cross historiographical boundaries is part of the series’ brief.

9 Smith does not consider important recent work that makes similar arguments about the structure of Christian soteriology and literary form by Cefalu, Paul, The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and McEachern, Claire, Believing in Shakespeare: Studies in Longing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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