Historical affects and the early modern theater

• Other Authors: Arab, Ronda, Dowd, Michelle M., Zucker, Adam
• Format: Unknown
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2015; New York
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies 33
• Subjects: English drama > History and criticism > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600; English drama > History and criticism > 17th century; Theater and history > History > England; Theater > History > 16th century > England
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• Physical Description: ix, 260 pages 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-254) and index
• ISBN: 9781138020504

This collection of original essays honors the groundbreaking scholarship of Jean E. Howard by exploring cultural and economic constructions of affect in the early modern theater. While historicist and materialist inquiry has dominated early modern theater studies in recent years, the historically specific dimensions of affect and emotion remain underexplored. This volume brings together these lines of inquiry for the first time, exploring the critical turn to affect in literary studies from a historicist perspective to demonstrate how the early modern theater showcased the productive interconnections between historical contingencies and affective attachments.