Shakespeare and Renaissance Theater

• Shakesperean Theater in Context
  • The New Renaissance Theater
    • Medieval Passion Plays as Precursors
    • Theater and Secularism
      • Courtliness and Theatricality: The Court as Site for Theater
      • Self-Fashioning and the Lay Public: Cities as Site for Theater
        • The Globe Theater, London (opened c. 1598)
  • What Status Renaissance Theater?
    • Theater, Commerce, and Gentlemanly Values
      • Theater as collectively produced, commercial entertainment: Where is the individual artist?
      • Theater as lowly, commercial activity: The playwright as mechanical artisan
    • Theater between Orality and Writing
      • The Performance vs. the Script: The gap between text and performance
      • Acting/Performing vs. Writing: What survives after the performance is over?
      • Performance vs. the Written Text: What are the timeless products of the playwright?
      • From Scripts, to Repetory, to Published Texts: Making playwrights without books
  • William Shakespeare (1564-1616) as Case Study of the Renaissance Playwright
    • The "Real" William Shakespeare: Renaissance Playwright or Historical Construction?
    • The Canonization Shakespeare: The First Folio Edition (1623)