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Representing the plague in early modern England / / edited by Rebecca Totaro and Ernest B. Gilman



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Titolo: Representing the plague in early modern England / / edited by Rebecca Totaro and Ernest B. Gilman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/3561
Soggetto topico: English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism
Plague in literature
Diseases and literature - England - History - 17th century
Diseases and literature - England - History - 16th century
Plague - England - History
Diseases in literature
Altri autori: GilmanErnest B. <1946->  
TotaroRebecca Carol Noel <1968->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Book 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
Part 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
Sommario/riassunto: This 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-
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ISBN: 1-136-96323-5
1-136-96324-3
1-282-78183-9
9786612781834
0-203-85056-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910785269303321
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Serie: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; ; 14.