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Representing the Plague in Early Modern England.
A collection that offers readers an 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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Colección: | Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, v. 14
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Making the Plague Serve Form and Function, 15631666; 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 Litera.