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Dear Gerard (and all), I am happy to report that my book has just come out! I include below a flyer with discount code as well as the relevant bibliographic citation and summary. Many thanks for your work on the MRDS newsletter. Best, Erika Erika T. Lin, Shakespeare and the Materiality of Performance (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) Many unspoken assumptions permeated the experience of performance in Shakespeare's theatre. Drawing on scientific treatises, murder pamphlets, travel narratives, dream manuals, religious sermons, festive sports, and other fascinating primary sources, Lin reconstructs playgoers' typical ways of thinking and feeling and demonstrates how these culturally-trained habits of mind shaped not only dramatic narratives but also the presentational dynamics of onstage action. Combining literary criticism, theatre history, and performance theory, this ground-breaking study explodes received ideas about mimesis, spectacle, and semiotics as it uncovers the ways in which early modern performance functioned as a material medium, revising and producing social attitudes and practices. PART I. PERFORMANCE EFFECTS INTRODUCTION. Materializing the Immaterial CHAPTER 1. Theorizing Theatrical Privilege: Rethinking Weimann's Concepts of Locus and Platea PART II. THEATRICAL WAYS OF KNOWING CHAPTER 2. Staging Sight: Visual Paradigms and Perceptual Strategies in Love's Labor's Lost CHAPTER 3. Imaginary Forces: Allegory, Mimesis, and Audience Interpretation in The Spanish Tragedy PART III. EXPERIENCING EMBODIED SPECTACLE CHAPTER 4. Dancing and Other Delights: Spectacle and Participation in Doctor Faustus and Macbeth CHAPTER 5. Artful Sport: Violence, Dismemberment, and Games in Titus Andronicus, Cymbeline, and Doctor Faustus -- Erika T. Lin Assistant Professor Department of English George Mason University 4400 University Dr., MSN 3E4 Fairfax, VA 22030 http://mason.gmu.edu/~elin1/ Now available from Palgrave Macmillan: SHAKESPEARE AND THE MATERIALITY OF PERFORMANCE http://us.macmillan.com/shakespeareandthematerialityofperformance/ErikaTLin On Dec 10, 2012, at 8:29 AM, Gerard NeCastro wrote: > Dear MRDS Members and Friends, > > I have begun putting together the Fall 2012 MRDS Newsletter, and, as usual, I need your help. Please send any announcements, including: > > - Upcoming conferences > - Recent publications > - Upcoming or recent performances > - Dissertations in progress (author's name, title, institution, director's name) or recently completed dissertations > - Calls for Papers and other opportunities > - Other News > > to [log in to unmask] > > Please do not be shy. I hope to have completed the newsletter before the Winter Solstice (or the end of the world), so please do not delay. > > Best to All, > > Gerard > > -- > Gerard P. NeCastro > MRDS Newsletter Secretary > and sometimes > Professor of English > University of Maine at Machias > 116 O'Brien Avenue > Machias, ME 04654 > > 207-255-1293 > [log in to unmask]