Robert E. Stillman, ed. Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. xxiv + 258 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $120. ISBN: 90-04-14928-7.

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Acknowledgments Editor's Foreword List of Contributors List of Illustrations 1. Antichrist on Page and Stage in the Later Middle Ages, Richard K. Emmerson 2. Staging Antichrist and the Performance of Miracles, Peter Cockett 3. "Nothing more nedeful": Politics and the Rhetoric of Accommodation in Elizabeth I's Coronation Procession, Robert E. Stillman 4. Britomart's Backward Glance in Spenser's Faerie Queene: Liminal Triumphs/Dark Erotics in Busirane's Mask of Cupid, Tiffany J. Alkan 5. Spectacle and the Fantasy of Immateriality: Authorship and Magic in John a Kent and John a Cumber, Nora Johnson 6. The Play of Voice: Acknowledgment, Knowledge, and Self-Knowledge in Measure for Measure, Sarah Beckwith 7. Spectacle and Equivocation in Macbeth, Richard C. McCoy 8. Mapping Shakespeare's Britain, Peter Holland 9. The Absent Triumphator in the 1610 Chester's Triumph in Honor of Her Prince, Robert W. Barrett, Jr. 10. Have his "carkasse": The Aftermaths of English Court Masques, Tom Bishop 11. Reading/Genres: On 1630s Masques, Lauren Shohet Index