LEADER 04184oam 2200769I 450 001 9910808977803321 005 20230725024936.0 010 $a1-136-96323-5 010 $a1-136-96324-3 010 $a1-282-78183-9 010 $a9786612781834 010 $a0-203-85056-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203850565 035 $a(CKB)2670000000044878 035 $a(EBL)557251 035 $a(OCoLC)664551577 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000427051 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12190732 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000427051 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10404497 035 $a(PQKB)10963706 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC557251 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL557251 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10416508 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL278183 035 $a(OCoLC)671644404 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000044878 100 $a20180706d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aRepresenting the plague in early modern England /$fedited by Rebecca Totaro and Ernest B. Gilman 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (269 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;$v14 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-63418-0 311 $a0-415-87797-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Making the Plague Serve Form and Function, 1563-1666; 1 Writing the Plague in English Prose Satire; 2 Plague Space and Played Space in Urban Drama, 1604; 3 Physical and Spiritual Illness: Narrative Appropriations of the Bills of Mortality; Part II: Governing Bodies in Plague-Time; 4 Contagious Figurations: Plague and the Impenetrable Nation after the Death of Elizabeth; 5 "Thinking to pass unknown": Measure for Measure, the Plague, and the Accession of James I 327 $aPart III: Performances, Playhouses, and the Sites of Re-Creation6 "Sweet recreation barred": The Case for Playgoing in Plague-Time; 7 Shakespeare's Dual Lexicons of Plague: Infections in Speech and Space; 8 "A plague on both your houses": Sites of Comfort and Terror in Early Modern Drama; Part IV: Contemporary Turns; 9 Plague in A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Girardian Reading of Bottom and Hippolyta; 10 Dekker's and Middleton's Plague Pamphlets as Environmental Literature; Afterword: Plague and Metaphor; Notes on Contributors; Index 330 $aThis collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that crisis, as early modern writers transformed the plague into literature. The essays examine the impact of the plague on health, politics, and religion as well as on the plays, prose fiction, and plague bills that stand as witnesses to the experience of a society devastated by contagious disease. Readers will find physicians and moralists wrestling with the mysteries of the disease; erotic escapades staged in plague- 410 0$aRoutledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;$v14. 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPlague in literature 606 $aDiseases and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aDiseases and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aPlague$zEngland$xHistory 606 $aDiseases in literature 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPlague in literature. 615 0$aDiseases and literature$xHistory 615 0$aDiseases and literature$xHistory 615 0$aPlague$xHistory. 615 0$aDiseases in literature. 676 $a820.9/3561 701 $aGilman$b Ernest B.$f1946-$0695542 701 $aTotaro$b Rebecca Carol Noel$f1968-$01600655 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808977803321 996 $aRepresenting the plague in early modern England$93923845 997 $aUNINA