Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage

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Introduction: Amrita Sen and Jennifer Linhart Wood, 'All the World's A Stage': Extra-Theatrical Performances and Dramatic Spaces Beyond the Public Theatres

I. Documents of Performance

1. Philip Butterworth (University of Leeds, UK), 'Stage Directions in the Medieval English Theatre: Function and Transition'
2. Daniel Yabut (French National Centre for Scientific Research, France), 'Acting a Part: What Can the University Actors' Manuscript Roles Tell Us about Early Modern Performance?'
3. Natalia Pikli (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary), 'Oxford and the Morris Dance: University and Communal Performances'
4. Emma Poltrack (Folger Shakespeare Library, USA), 'Edward Dering's Amateur Theatricals'

II. Devotional Performances

5. Liv Robinson (University of Birmingham, UK), 'Recreation, Pleasure and Performance in the Medieval Convent'
6. Chelsea McKelvey (Auburn University, USA), 'Closet Catholicism, Private Entertainments, and Shakespeare in Seventeenth-Century Yorkshire'
7. Samantha Arten (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) and Anne Heminger (University of Tampa, USA), 'Performing Religious Reform in the Tudor Parish Church'

III. Musical Performances

8. Csilla Virag (Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary), 'Local Community and Performativity: The Tutbury Minstrel Court'
9. Murat Ögutcu (Munzur University, Turkey), 'Tuning Shakespeare's As You Like It for Court Performance'
10. Sarah Williams (University of South Carolina, USA), 'Memory, Music, and Forgotten Entertainments in Early Modern London'

IV. Political Entertainments

11. Siobhan Keenan (De Montfort University, UK), 'The King's Men and London's Civic Drama: The example of Richard Burbage and London's Love to the Royal Prince Henry (1610)'
12. Gabriel Lonsberry (Purdue University, USA), 'Prince Henry's Investiture and the Splintering of the Stuart Court Stage'
13. Effie Botonaki (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), 'The Masques of Charles I and Henrietta Maria: Re-Visioning Patriarchal Rule'
14. Alden T. Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University, USA), 'Entertaining Encounters: Indian-Settler Performances in Seventeenth-Century British North America'

V. Materialities of Performance

15. Emma Kraus (Mary Baldwin University, USA), 'Under Pretence of Rope Dancing: Headlining Performances at the Interregnum Red Bull'
16. Nicole Sheriko (Christ's College, University of Cambridge, UK), 'Pageant Puppetry and the Aesthetics of Englishness'
17. Souvik Mukherjee (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, India), 'Performing Play: Chess, Performance, and Spectacle in Early Modern England'

VI. Spectacular Performances

18. Teresa Simone (Florida State University, USA), 'Performing Monkeys in Rococo France and England'
19. Maria Shmygol (University of Leeds, UK), 'Firework Drama: Pyrotechnic Performance in Jacobean London'
20. Abbie Weinberg (Folger Shakespeare Library, USA), 'Early Modern Performative Failures'

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