Ballads and Performance: The Multimodal Stage in Early Modern England

"Ballads and Performance: The Multimodal Stage in Early Modern England" Table of Contents

Edited by Patricia Fumerton

 

1. Introduction: Multimedia and Multimodal Theatricality

By Patricia Fumerton Read


I: Remediating Ballads and Plays

2. Shakespeare in Snippets: Ballads, Plays, and the Performance of Remediation

By Lori Humphrey Newcomb, with Lori Humphrey Newcomb, Michelle M. Chan, Hilary Gross, Kyle R. Johnston, Sabrina Y. Lee, Kathryn E. O’Toole, Michael J. Ruiz, and Stacy Wykle, University of Illinois. Read


II. Marketing Theatricality: Producers and Consumers of/in Ballads and Plays

3. “Hear for your love, and buy for your money”: Ballads and Theater as Experiential Commodities

By Claire M. Busse Read
 

4. She’s Crafty, She Gets Around: Women’s Craft and Commodification in Ballads

By Kris McAbee Read


III: Performing Knowledge, Senses, and Emotions

5. Dangerous Conjectures: Ophelia’s Ballad Performance

By David Baker, with Travis Alexander, Adam Engel, Katharine Landers, Mary Learner, and Ashley Werlinich Read
 

6. Ballads on the Brain: A Neurobiological Hypothesis

By Pamela Reinagel Read


IV. Staging Deformity and Female Disease

7. The True Form and Shape of Caliban: Monstrous Birth at the Edge of the Human

By Rochelle Smith Read
 

8. “Greensickness carrion’: Re-reading Capulet through Broadside Ballads

By Jessica C. Murphy Read


V: Beyond the Last Act

9. Ballads+: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and its After-piece Jig

By Matthew J. Smith and Julia Reinhard Lupton Read
 

10. Afterword

By Bruce R. Smith Read