From Script to Stage in Early Modern England

RICHARD BEADLE Reader in English Literature, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, UK and Fellow of St John's College, CambridgeANTHONY B. DAWSON Professor of English, University of British Columbia, CanadaR. A. FOAKES Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles, USAANDREW GURR Professor Emeritus, University of Reading, UKNATASHA KORDA Associate Professor of English, Wesleyan University, USASCOTT McMILLAN Professor of English, Cornell University, USACAROLYN SALE Recently completed her dissertation at Stanford University, USABRUCE R. SMITH Professor of English, University of Southern California, USACLAIRE SPONSLER Teaches at the English Department, University of Iowa, USATIFFANY STERN Senior Lecturer in English, Oxford Brookes University, UK

• List of Illustrations Series Introduction: Redefining British Theatre History Notes on Contributors Introduction: A View from the Stage; S.Orgel PART I: QUESTIONS OF EVIDENCE Henslowe's Rose/Shakespeare's Globe; R.A.Foakes Masks, Mimes and Miracles: Medieval English Theatricality and its Illusions; R.Beadle Theatre without Drama: Reading REED ; P.Holland PART II: INTERROGATING DATA A New Theater Historicism; A.Gurr Staging Evidence; A.B.Dawson PART III: WHAT IS A PLAY? Drama in the Archives: Recognizing Medieval Plays; C.Sponsler E/loco/com/motion; B.R.Smith Re-patching the Play; T.Stern PART IV: WOMEN'S WORK Slanderous Aesthetics and the Woman Writer: The Case of Hole v. White; C.Sale Labors Lost: Women's Work and Early Modern Theatrical Commerce; N.Korda The Sharer and His Boy: Rehearsing Shakespeare's Women; S.McMillin Index

'Compellingly readable essays.' - Laurie Maguire, Times Higher Education Supplement'...the-after history of early modern England is a field rich with possibilities, and From Script to Stage is a valuable and provocative invitiation to continue and reshape the discipline.' - Sixteenth Century Journal