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## Brings together diverse scholarship on theatre and conversional practices in early modern Europe and Latin America * Makes a compelling argument for the importance of theatrical practices and theatrical thinking in how conversion itself changed for early moderns * Discusses a wide range of theatrical practices that include, but are not limited to, established canonical authors * Provides new readings of classic plays by Middleton, Lope de Vega, and others * Provides a series of case studies of theatre and conversional practice centered around specific cities This volume asks, how did theatrical practice shape the multiplying forms of conversion that emerged in early modern Europe? Each chapter focuses on a specific city or selection of cities, beginning with Venice, then moving to London, Mexico City, Tlaxcalla, Seville, Madrid, Amsterdam, Zürich, Berne, and Lucerne (among others). Collectively, these studies establish a picture of early modernity as an age teeming with both excitement and anxiety over conversional activity. In addition to considering the commercial theater that produced professional dramatists such as Lope de Vega and Thomas Middleton, the volume surveys a wide

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Author

José R. Jouve Martin; Stephen Wittek

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474482745

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Sports