Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016 Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? Performance and the City queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, while also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma.

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Chapter One

Interrogating Torture and Finding Race

Chapter Two

A Matter that is No Matter:

Religion, Color, and the White Actress in The Empress of Morocco and Xerxes

Chapter Three

When Race is Colored:

Abjection and Racial Characterization in Titus Andronicus and Oroonoko

Chapter Four

Racializing Civility:

The Indian Emperour, or The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

Chapter Five

Racializing Mercantilism:

Amboyna: or, The Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants

Chapter Six

Combating Historical Amnesia:

On the Images of Prisoner Abuse from Abu Ghraib

Notes

Bibliography

Index

This interdisciplinary study theorizes the interaction of individual performance and social space. Examining three categories of space the urban, the theatrical, and the cartographic this volume considers the role of performance in the production and operation of these spaces during a period in London 's history defined roughly by the life of Shakespeare.

City/Stage/Globe not only organizes a selection of plays, pageants, maps, and masques in the historical and cultural contexts in which they emerged, but also uses performance theory to locate the ways in which these seemingly ephemeral events contributed to lasting change in the spatial concepts and physical topograpy of early modern London.

Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016 Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? Performance and the City queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, while also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma.