Representing the plague in early modern England

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Representing the plague in early modern England

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Routledge
Language
English
Pages
260

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Table of Contents

Section one. Making the plague serve form and function, 1563-1666: Chapter one: Writing the plague in English prose satire / William Kerwin; Chapter two: Plague space and played space in urban drama, 1604 / Kelly J. Stage; Chapter three: Physical and spiritual illness: Narrative appropriations of the Bills of mortality / Erin Sullivan
Section two. Governing bodies in plague-time: Chapter four: Contagious figurations: plague and the impenetrable nation after the death of Elizabeth / Richelle Munkhoff; Chapter five: Thinking to pass unknown: Measure for Measure, the plague, and the accession of James I / James D. Mardock
Section three. Performances, playhouses, and the sites of re-creation: Chapter six: "Sweet recreation barred": the case for playgoing in plague-time / Nichole DeWall; Chapter seven: Shakespeare's dual lexicons of plague: infections in speech and space / Paula S. Berggren; Chapter eight: "A plague on both your houses": sites of comfort and terror in early modern drama / Barbara H. Traister
Section four. Contemporary turns: Chapter nine: Plague in A midsummer night's dream: a Girardian reading of Bottom and Hippolyta / Matthew Thiele; Chapter ten: Dekker's and Middleton's plague pamphlets as environmental literature / Charles Whitney.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York
Series
Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture -- 14

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
820.9/3561
Library of Congress
PR408.P62 R47 2010, PR408.P62R47 2010, PR408.P62 R47 2011, PR408.P62 R47 2011eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
260

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23972175M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780415877978
ISBN 10
0415877970, 0203850564
ISBN 13
9780415877978, 9780203850565
LCCN
2009049213
OCLC/WorldCat
671644404, 449889917

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