17 articles in this issue
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Thomas Pettitt
Alongside the irregular ‘stage history’, early English plays also had a ‘vernacular afterlife’, comprising both a professional strand of performances by strolling players and puppet-masters, and a ‘folk’ strand of performances by local youths under custom... see more
Roberto Ciancarelli
The extraordinary circulation of comic scripts (texts, manuscripts, scenarios and zibaldoni) in seventeenth-century Rome allows us to observe the profiles of a ‘self-referential theatre’ that involved citizens, amateur actors and authors, and depicts clea... see more
Lene Buhl Petersen
This introductory essay constitutes a survey of the contributions gathered in this issue of JEMS. It begins with an overview of the volume’s area of study and moves on to build a glossary for an academic field whose perimeters are perhaps not all that cle... see more
Christopher Haile
Thomas Middleton’s allegorical play A Game at Chess was perhaps the most sensational cultural event of the English Renaissance. It was so incendiary that a spectator declared it may have constituted a hanging offence, and so popular that the concept of th... see more
Maria Grazia Dongu
The article aims to reconstruct the eighteenth-century discussion about knowledge and its connection to a new kind of acting. Mise en scène, that is, the collective and negotiable creation of meaning in theatre, will be at the core of the following pages.... see more
Darren Freebury-Jones
Thomas Kyd is traditionally accepted as the author of The Spanish Tragedy, Soliman and Perseda, and Cornelia. Kyd may also have written a lost Hamlet play that preceded Shakespeare’s version. Among his contemporaries, Kyd enjoyed a far higher reputation t... see more
Darwin Smith
The article gives an overview of the writing processes of theatre performances in medieval France. At the crossroads of all processes is the original (the Book, le Livre, les originaux) containing the full text, and from which all kind of copies were prod... see more
Paola Ventrone
The purpose of the article is to investigate the complex link between theatre, as a practice involving a number of people, and the change in the use of dramatic texts occurred at the origins of the Italian printing industry, when dramatic texts were no lo... see more
Raimondo Guarino