Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

Fugitive Explorations

B. Reynolds

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2006
• Print ISBN:
  9781403932112
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230584570
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This study expands on Reynolds' 'transversal poetics' - the theory, methodology, and aesthetics developed in response to the need for an approach that fosters agency, creativity and conscientious scholarship and pedagogy. It offers new readings of plays by, amongst others, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, Webster and Greene.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Transversal Poetics and Fugitive Explorations: Theaterspace, Paused Consciousness, Subjunctivity, and Macbeth
• 2 The Reckoning of Moll Cutpurse: Transversal Reimaginings of The Roaring Girl
• 3 The Delusion of Critique: Subjunctive Space, Transversality, and the Conceit of Deceit in Hamlet
• 4 Comedic Law: Projective Transversality, Deceit Conceits, and the Conjuring of Macbeth and Doctor Faustus in Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass
• 5 I Might Like You Better If We Slept Together: the Historical Drift of Place in The Changeling
• 6 Fugitive Explorations in Romeo and Juliet: Searching for Transversality inside the Goldmine of R&Jspace
• 7 Viewing Antitheatricality: or, Tamburlaine’s Post-Theater
• 8 Becomings Roman/Comings-to-be Villain: Pressurized Belongings and the Coding of Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationality in Peele & Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
• 9 Awakening the Werewolf Within: Self-help, Vanishing Mediation, and Transversality in The Duchess of Malfi
• 10 Performative Transversations: Collaborations Through and Beyond Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
• Afterword: Re: connaissance
• A Very Short List of Writings Significant to the Development of Transversal Poetics
• Notes on the Collaborators
• Index