Performing Conversion : Cities, Theatre and Early Modern Transformations.
- 1 online resource (218 pages).
- Conversions Ser. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION: CONVERSION, CITIES AND THEATRE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD -- 1 VENICE: THE CONVERTED CITY -- 2 TURNINGS: MOTION AND EMOTION IN THE LABYRINTHS OF EARLY MODERN AMSTERDAM -- 3 FRANCISCO CERVANTES DE SALAZAR'S MEXICO CITY IN 1554: A DRAMATURGY OF CONVERSION -- 4 CONVERSIONAL THINKING AND THE LONDON STAGE -- 5 RELIGIOUS DRAMA AND THE POLEMICS OF CONVERSION IN MADRID -- 6 THEATRE AND CONVERSION IN EARLY MODERN ZÜRICH, BERNE AND LUCERNE 7 CONVERSIONAL ECONOMIES: THOMAS MIDDLETON'S CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE -- CODA: PERFORMING CONVERSION IN AN EARLY MODERN FUTURE -- INDEX
This volume asks, how did theatrical practice shape the multiplying forms of conversion that emerged in early modern Europe?
9781474482745
Theater--History. Theater--Religious aspects. Theater and society. Conversion in literature.