Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Darryl Chalk
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-17 - Publisher: Springer

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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 foc
Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Mary Floyd-Wilson
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-11 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Belief in spirits, demons and the occult was commonplace in the early modern period, as was the view that these forces could be used to manipulate nature and pr
Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage
Language: en
Pages: 210
Authors: Amy Kenny
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-21 - Publisher: Springer

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This book explores how the humoral womb was evoked, enacted, and embodied on the Shakespearean stage by considering the intersection of performance studies and
Shakespeare and Disgust
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Bradley J. Irish
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-02-09 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Drawing on both historical analysis and theories from the modern affective sciences, Shakespeare and Disgust argues that the experience of revulsion is one of S
Venus’s Palace
Language: en
Pages: 162
Authors: Reut Barzilai
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-03-20 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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This book lays bare the dialogue between Shakespeare and critics of the stage and positions it as part of an ongoing cultural, ethical, and psychological debate