Renaissance Drama 31: New Series XXXI 2002 Performing Affect

"Performing Affect," Volume 31 of Renaissance Drama, examine the rehearsal of emotion on the Renaissance stage. These new essays consider the ways in which Renaissance plays represent emotional states, while also presenting new scholarship specifically on the performance of the "affect" on the early modern stage. Topics include: emotion and the humoral body; domestic abuse and trauma; the politics of onstage gesture; the relation of idolatry, desire, and necrophilia; the performance of such affective states as religious fervor, memory, jealousy, melancholy, and heroic masculinity.

Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theater, and performance.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810119625
• ISBN13: 9780810119628
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"