Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage
This collection of essays considers what constituted contagion in the minds of early moderns in the absence of modern germ theory. In a wide range of essays focused on early modern drama and the culture of theater, contributors explore how ideas of contagion not only inform representations of the senses (such as smell and touch) and emotions (such as disgust, pity, and shame) but also shape how people understood belief, narrative, and political agency. Epidemic thinking was not limited to medical inquiry or the narrow study of a particular disease. Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker and other early modern writers underst…
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Weitere Autoren: Floyd-Wilson, Mary (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-030-14430-2
- EAN: 9783030144302
- Produktnummer: 34604348
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D1.6 cm 396 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2019
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 396
Über den Autor
Darryl Chalk is a Senior Lecturer in Theater at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.Mary Floyd-Wilson is the Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
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