Majestic Drag: Monarchical Performativity and the King's Body Theatrical

Mark Franko is the author of TheWork of Dance: Labor, Movement, and Identity in the 1930s (Wesleyan University Press, 2002), Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics (Indiana University Press, 1995), Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body (Cambridge University Press, 1993), The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography (Summa Publications, 1986), and coeditor, with Annette Richards, of Acting on the Past: Historical Performance Across the Disciplines (Wesleyan University Press, 2000). He has published numerous articles in anthologies and journals such as Res, TDR, Theatre Journal, Annals of Scholarship, Discourse, Social Text, and Performance Research. His research has been supported by The Getty Research Center, The American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the France/Berkeley Fund. A dancer and choreographer, Franko has presented his work internationally since 1985, and is Professor of Dance and Performance Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.