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Performing affect : applaudo

An examination of the rehearsal of emotion on the Renaissance stage. These essays consider the way in which Renaissance plays represent emotional states, while also presenting new scholarship specifically on the performance of "affect"on the early modern stage.
Print Book, English, 2002
Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill., 2002
xii, 246 pages ; 24 cm
9780810119628, 0810119625
50655193
Likenings: Rhetorical husbandries and Portia's "true conceit" of friendship / Laurie Shannon
"Action, passion, motion": The gestural politics of counsel in The Spanish Tragedy / Kevin Dunn
"Dirty" amens: Devotion, applause, and consent in Richard III / Ramie Targoff
Male surplus value / Donald Hedrick
Memory and revision in Chapman's Bussy Plays / Katherine Rowe
Performing anger: The anatomy of abuse(s) in Troilus and Cressida / Laurie E. Maguire
"He something seems unsettled": Melancholy, jealousy, and subjective temporality in The winter's tale / David Houston Wood
Animating matter: The corpse as idol in The second maiden's tragedy / Susan Zimmerman