This ground-breaking collection explores the assumptions behind and practices for performance implicit in the manuscripts and playtexts of the medieval and early modern eras, focusing on work which engages with performance-oriented research.

This ground-breaking collection explores the assumptions behind and practices for performance implicit in the manuscripts and playtexts of the medieval and early modern eras, focusing on work which engages with performance-oriented research.

Thinking Site: an Introduction, Susan Bennett and Mary Polito PART I: BUILDING FRAMEWORKS 1. 'The whole past, the whole time': Untimely Matter and the Playing Spaces of York, Patricia Badir 2. John Heywood, Henry, and Hampton Court Palace, Elisabeth Dutton 3. Playing The Changeling Architecturally, Kim Solga PART II: TRAVEL AND TYPOGRAPHY 4. Performing Folk at Kenilworth, Jim Ellis 5. Knights and Daze: The Place of Romance in the Queen's Men's Repertory, Helen Ostovich 6. Geographies of Performance in the Early Modern Midlands, Julie Sanders PART III: PSYCHIC SPACES 7. Mapping Guild Conflict in the York Passion Plays, Kevin Teo 8. Body, Site and Memory in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament, Clare Wright 9. A Taste of High Life at Elvetham: Elizabethan Progresses and the Rural Consumption of Royal Neverwheres, Sarah Crover PART IV: CROSSING BOUNDARIES 10. With the grace off God at th'entryng off the Brigge: Crown versus Town and the Giant of London Bridge 11. Lydgate's Triumphal Entry of Henry VI, Joseph Rodriguez 12. Cymbeline and the Politics/Poetics of Mobility, Amy Scott 13. Locating The Valiant Scot, Vimala C. Pasupathi Bibliography Index