PASSION MADE PUBLIC: Elizabethan Lyric, Gender, and Performance

by Diana E. Henderson

Passion Made Public explores the remarkable vitality of lyrical poetry in Elizabethan theatrical performances, analyzing its complex social and aesthetic origins, uses, and messages. Diana Henderson explains how lyric poetry in plays by Peele, Marlowe, and Shakespeare reflected a range of attitudes toward female power and created an alternative landscape in which to reconsider political and sexual ideologies.

279 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1995

About the author

Diana E. Henderson, Professor of Literature and MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT, is the author of Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare Across Time and Media (2006) and Passion Made Public: Elizabethan Lyric, Gender, and Performance (1995). She edited Alternative Shakespeares 3 (2008) and the Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen (2006), and co-edits the annual Shakespeare Studies. She is currently co-editing volumes on digital pedagogy and adaptation for The Arden Shakespeare Association of America, and works as a dramaturg and theatrical consultant. Her online and performance projects include collaborations with director Karin Coonrod, documentary production, and the MITx Merchant Module.