Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Darryl Chalk, Mary Floyd-Wilson.
• Editors: Chalk, Darryl; Floyd-Wilson, Mary
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (292 pages)
• Subjects: Literature; Literature, Modern; British literature; Literary Criticism -- General; Performing Arts -- Theater -- History & Criticism; Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature: history & criticism; Theatre studies; Literary studies: general; Literature-History and criticism; Theater-History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030144289
• Related ISBNs: 9783030144272
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.