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Marston, John
1592–1594 Jurastudium in Oxford; 1598 Veröffentlichung verschiedener satirischer Texte, die verboten wurden; 1599 erste Komödien für Philip Henslowe;...
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Marston, John: The Malcontent
Die 1603 erstmals aufgeführte und 1604 veröffentlichte Tragikomödie gilt als das dramatische Meisterwerk des Autors. Altofront, ehemals Herzog von...
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City Comedy and Bartholomew Fair
A genre of urban satire, English early modern city comedies are irrevocably intertwined with the city of London. These comedies were products of and...
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City Comedy and Bartholomew Fair
A genre of urban satire, English early modern city comedies are irrevocably intertwined with the city of London. These comedies were products of and...
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John Marston’s What You Will, Plausible Plants and the Children of Paul’s
This chapter explores the playhouse at Paul’s as part of the Cathedral precinct’s social and erotic economy, and offers a new reading of the...
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Cognitive Approaches to Performance Studies
Cognitive approaches have been leading the way to new understandings of nonliterary art (i.e., multi-media, performance, perceptual genres). Indeed,...
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The ‘Playhouse’ at St Paul’s: What We Know of the Theatre in the Almonry
There is little surviving evidence to establish precisely the location, dimensions, and features of the room within the cathedral precinct in which...
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Intertextuality and Satire: Ben Jonson’s Poetaster
This chapter also focuses on a genre which requires an intertextual response from its audience in order to achieve its ends. Satire requires...
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Conclusion: The Bridging Function of Contextualism and the Cognitive Paradigm
In this brief concluding chapter, we recap the spectrum of cognitive approaches to literary studies, speculate briefly on how cognitive literary and...
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Wooing in English: Staging the Dutch in English Comedy
City Comedy offers a space in which audiences become familiar with social and theatrical types like gallants and unhappy wives. Three comic types—the...
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Theory of Mind (ToM)
In this chapter, we discuss what is known in cognitive psychology as Theory of MindTheory of Mind (ToM) (ToM). This term refers to the way in which...
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The Memorable Masque, 1613
This chapter looks at the first of two simian wedding masques given in 1613 to celebrate the marriage of James I’s daughter, Princess Elizabeth, to...
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‘Somewhat Like A Man’: Apes, Boy Players, Women
This chapter argues that certain players were more likely to become monkeys or find themselves on the stage with them. The connection between...
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Contextualism
In this chapter, we explore at length the second of the theoretical approaches to cognition, contextualism, recommending it as the ideal framework...
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Women as Patrons of Drama
Many women served as dramatic patrons in early modern England. They helped make plays in private and public venues by commissioning and funding...
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Bakhtin and His Echoes
This chapter presents in more detail a contemporary of both Saussure and Chomsky: Mikhail Bakhtin, whose proto-pragmatism sets the scene for a...
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Jonson, Ben: Das dramatische Werk
Neben Shakespeare ist Ben Jonson der bedeutendste englische Dramatiker der Renaissance. Als gelehrter Dichter (‚poeta doctus‘), allerdings ohne jede...
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Davies, Sir John: Orchestra
Bald nach seinem Erscheinen 1596 wurde das unvollendete Lehrgedicht in einer Reihe satirischer Epigramme (u. a. von John Harington und John...
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The Mind at Work
The subject of this chapter is the mind: the activity of the brain. First, we present an approach to consciousness and concepts of self, based on...
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Blackfishing Complexions: Shakespeare, Passing, and the Politics of Beauty
Images of beauty in Shakespeare’s sonnets contributed to a worldview in which whiteness is an assumption, in which fair complexions are “vogue.”...