1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996385934503316

Titolo

A true copy of divers intercepted letters sent from the committee at Derby-house, to Lieut. Gen: Cromwell [[electronic resource]] : Published to requite their stopping of the packets this week from France, and from the North

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London, : s.n., 1648]

Descrizione fisica

1 sheet ([1] p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CromwellOliver <1599-1658.>

Soggetti

Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649 Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Imprint from Wing.

Letters dated: June 13. 1648 and Yorke, June 9. 1648.

Order to print signed: H. Elsyng Cler. Parl. D. Com.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "June 26 1648".

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910958048803321

Autore

Calbi Maurizio

Titolo

Approximate bodies : gender and power in early modern drama and anatomy / / Maurizio Calbi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

1-134-28235-4

1-280-41407-3

9786610414079

0-203-56712-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

822/.3093561

Soggetti

English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism

Human body in literature

English drama - 17th century - History and criticism

Power (Social sciences) in literature

Sex role in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-164) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on texts; Introduction; 1 'That body of hers': The secret, the specular, the spectacular in The Duchess of Malfi and anatomical discourses; 2 'Behind the back of life': Uncanny bodies and identities in The changeling; 3 'A meer choas': Moles, abject bodies and the economy of reproductive discourses; 4 'Strange flesh' and 'unshap't bodies': Monstrosity, hyperbolic masculinity and 'racial' difference; 5 'Un-pleasurable' detours: Figurations of desire and the body erotic; Notes

BibliographyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

The early modern period was an age of anatomical exploration and revelation, with new discoveries capturing the imagination not only of scientists but also of playwrights and poets. Approximate Bodies examines, in fascinating detail, the changing representation of the body in early modern drama and in the period's anatomical and



gynaecological treatises.Maurizio Calbi focuses on the unstable representation of both masculinity and femininity in Renaissance texts such as The Duchess of Malfi, The Changeling and a variety of Shakespeare plays. Drawing on theor