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 se...

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Other Authors: Chalk, Darryl (Editor), Floyd-Wilson, Mary (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction: Beyond the Plague - Darryl Chalk -- 2. Comedy, the Senses, and Social Contagion in Plays Confused in Five Actions and The Comedy of Errors - Jennie Votava -- 3. "A Deal of Stinking Breath": The Smell of Contagion in the Early Modern Playhouse - Amy Kenny -- 4. "Go Touch his Life": Contagious Malice and the Power of Touch in The Witch of Edmonton - Bronwyn Johnston -- 5. Kisses and Contagion in Troilus and Cressida - Jennifer Forsyth -- 6. "Search this Ulcer Soundly": Sex as Contagion in The Changeling and Othello - Emily Weissbourd -- 7. "Amend thy Face": Contagion and Disgust in the Henriad - Ariane M. Balizet -- 8. Bad Dancing and Contagious Embarrassment in More Dissemblers Besides Women - Jennifer Panek -- 9. Contagious Pity: Cultural Differences and the Language of Contagion in Titus Andronicus - Jennifer Feather -- 10. The Hungry Meme and Political Contagion in Coriolanus - Clifford Werier -- 11. Hamlet's Story/Stories of Hamlet: Shakespeare's Theatre, the Plague, and Contagious Storytelling - J. F. Bernard -- 12. "Nature Naturized": Plague, Contagious Atheism, and The Alchemist - John Estabillo -- 12. Embedded in Shakespeare's "Fair Verona" - Rebecca Totaro -- 13. Afterword - Mary Floyd-Wilson. 
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