Imagining Spectatorship is a highly innovative study in the emerging area of early spectatorship, focusing on the spectators' experience to offer new perspectives on early drama. Cover -- Imagining Spectatorship: From the Mysteries to the...
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Imagining Spectatorship is a highly innovative study in the emerging area of early spectatorship, focusing on the spectators' experience to offer new perspectives on early drama. Cover -- Imagining Spectatorship: From the Mysteries to the Shakespearean Stage -- Copyright -- Dedication -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- 1: The Spectatorial Turn: Witnessing Early English Drama from the York Cycle to Shakespeare -- Moving images -- Spectating in the streets: the York Crucifixion pageant -- The playhouse drama: spectating in the Shakespearean theatre -- Viewing Shakespeare from space -- Spectating as spectacle -- The spectatorial turn -- 2: Tudor Household Drama: Beyond the Cognitive Turn -- Drama and cognitive theory -- Cognitive simulation or 'mirroring' -- Conceptual blending and 'oscillation' -- The Tudor interludes: spectating in the great hall -- Working the halls -- Case Studies -- 3: Figuring the Spectator: The Entertainments at Carew Castle and Wisdom -- 'Pilgrimage of St George to St David' -- Wisdom -- Playing and control -- 4: Staging Revelation: Virtuous and Godly Susanna, John Bale, and the Chester Antichrist -- The Most Virtuous and Godly Susanna -- The drama of disclosure: the Towneley Second Shepherds' Play, John Bale, and the Chester Antichrist -- 5: Watching The Three Estates -- Historicizing witness: then and now -- Afterword: Cueing Spectators -- Crossing boundaries -- Variations of agreed pretence -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Primary Sources: Editions, Images, Manuscripts, Web Resources -- Secondary Sources -- INDEX.
