- Cristina León Alfar, Hunter College, CUNY, USA, Series Editor
- Louise Geddes, Adelphi University, USA, Series Editor
Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Gender, Performance and Material Culture
This series provides a forum for monographs and essay collections that investigate the material culture, broadly conceived, of theatre and performance in England from the late Tudor to the pre-Restoration Stuart periods (ca. 1550–1650). The editors invite proposals for book-length studies engaging the materiality of performance, broadly understood as including staging practices, social and ritual performance, reception or fan studies, early modern media ecologies and performance across cultures. Also welcome are studies that approach modern iterations through adaptation and stage histories. Additionally, we are interested in the discursive production of gender, sex and race in early modern English drama in relation to material historical, social, cultural, and political structures, transnational encounters and colonialism; changes to and effects of law; monarchy and the republic and their effects on dramatic texts and/or theatrical performance. The series is aimed at opening the study of early modern drama to theoretical readings, and we welcome submissions working from feminist, presentist, queer, anti-racist and class perspectives.
The editors are also interested in the discursive production of gender, sex and race in early modern England in relation to material historical, social, cultural and political structures; changes to and effects of law; monarchy and the republic in dramatic texts; theatre and performance, including performance spaces that are not in theatres. Further topics might include the production and consumption of things and ideas; costumes, props, theatre records and accounts, gendering of spaces and geographies (court, tavern, street, and household, rural or urban), cross-dressing, military or naval excursions, gendered pastimes, games, behaviors, rituals, fashions, transnational encounters, the disabled and the demonic and their reflection in text and performance.
Keywords: Drama, theatre, performance, material culture, gender, Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Geographical Scope: United Kingdom
Chronological Scope: ca. 1550-1650