For an issue to be guest co-edited by Jeffrey Masten and Wendy
Wall, Renaissance Drama solicits essays that take up the
question of "space" and the early modern stage. This
topic could include: the representation of space on stage; the
representation of particular kinds of spaces or locations, or
geographic imaginaries (domestic, urban, national, pastoral,
undifferentiated space); the space of acting/playing (e.g.,
locus/platea); the use of transit, movement, exile, exit,
entrance,
procession; space as a created effect or stage property; the
space of the audience; the spaces of staging outside theaters
(the house, the court, etc.); the body in/as theatrical space;
the politics or ideologies of space and particular spaces
(analyzed along lines that might include but would not be limited
to: gender, race, nation, class/rank, sexuality). Essays that
raise methodological questions about the relation of theatrical
history to the interpretation or analysis of "space"
are particularly welcome.
Deadline for submissions is March 15, 1998. Please send a
self-addressed stamped envelope (if you wish to have the essay
returned to you) and three copies of your essay to either of the
following addresses:
Professor Jeffrey Masten
c/o Folger Shakespeare Library
201 E. Capitol Street,
Washington, DC 20003
USA
OR
Professor Wendy Wall
Department of English
S.E. University Hall
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208
USA
PD 8 January 98