Acts of crime: lawlessness on the early modern stage

D. Jancsó / S. Laqué: Introduction: Enter Crime – I Mapping Crime – B. Cummings: Adultery in the Theatre – E. Fernie: Lighten our Darkness? Höfele, Moriarty and Hughes on Shakespeare and the Question of the Human – R. Wilson: Moonlight Sonata: Larkin, Shakespeare and the Criminal State – C. Bode: The Birth of Modern Drama from the Spirit of Detection – II Making Criminals – W. von Koppenfels: Enter the Elizabethan Contract Killer: Murder by Proxy and the Tragic Emotions – A. Nünning / V. Nünning: “For greedie gaine hee thrust the weake to wall”: Extortion and the Negotiation of Values in Philip Massinger’s A New Way to Pay Old Debts and the Scandal of Sir Giles Mompesson – N. Greiner: Crime and Recompense: The Ontology of Criminal Acts in the Henriad – R. Morse: Girlhoods of Shakespeare’s Anti-Heroine: Gruoch, Lady Macbeth – III Modes of Punishment – D. Schulz: Deed and Consequence: Retribution and the Theatre of Crime in Macbeth – C. Balme: Blood Witness and “exquisite torture”: William Prynne’s Martyrdom and the Early Modern Public Sphere in England – L. Cowen Orlin: John Shakespeare, Jew – C. Olk: “The time of mercy is past” - Hamlet and Medieval Eschatology