An edition of Persecution, Plague and Fire: Fugitive Histories of the Stage in Early Modern England
(2011)
Persecution, Plague and Fire: Fugitive Histories of the Stage in Early Modern England
by Ellen MacKay
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The Theater as a Loaded Gun
The Hurt That Comes of Fooling
Aeschylus’s Ballistic Stage
PART I: THE RUINS OF ROME
1. The Theater as Persecution
Tragedy’s Guilty Creatures
England’s Conscience-Catching Theater
Rome’s Fatal Charades
2. Tyrannical Drama
The Dream of Theatrical Justice
Hamlet’s Show Trial
The King’s Immunity
The Widow’s Foregone Confession
Gertrude’s Uncaught Conscience
Orestes Redux
The End of Rome
PART II: THE FALL OF THE UNIFIED CHURCH
3. The Theater as Infection
The Toxic Middle Age
“The Theater and the Plague”
“The Sure Disease of Uncertaine Causes”
The Life of Performance
Not Quite Nothing
4. Stigmatical Drama
Some Symptoms of the Medieval Stage
“It is not words that shakes me thus”
The Plague in Art
“Look there, look there!”
PART III: THE APOCALYPSE TO COME
5. The Theater as Conflagration
The Eschatology of the Tudor Stage
The Theater’s Propensity for Burning
Raising the “Cry of Sodom”
Wielding the Crime of Sodom
Sodomy’s False Origins
6. Sodomitical Drama
The Sought Apocalypse
Remembering Lot’s Wife
The Stage’s Hymeneal Contract
The Impossible History of Theater Fires
The Mare Mortuum’s Infinite Stage
Afterword: On the Uncertainty of What Comes After
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