William Egginton is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York and the translator of Lisa Block de Behar's Borges: The Passion of an Endless Quotation, also published by SUNY Press.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Legend of Saint Genesius

1. Actors, Agents, and Avatars

Avatars
Performativity
Theatricality

2. Real Presence, Sympathetic Magic, and the Power of Gesture

Magic
Presence
Performances
Religious Spectacle
Political Spectacle
Seeds of Theatricality

3. Saint Genesius on the Stage of the World

Diderot's Paradox
Metatheater
Actors and Martyrs

4. A Tale of Two Cities: The Evolution of Renaissance Stage Practices in Madrid and Paris

Italian Innovations
Theories and Theaters in Paris
Theories and Theaters in Madri
Tales from the Crypt
True Pretense: Lope's Lo fingido verdadero and the Structure of Theatrical Space

5. Theatricality versus Subjectivity

Philosophical Subjectivity
Political Subjectivity
Aesthetic Subjectivit
Theatricality and Media Theory

Epilogue

Notes

Index