Poison on the early modern English stage : plants, paints and potions /: plants, paints and potions. (2023)
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- Book
- Title:
- Poison on the early modern English stage : plants, paints and potions /: plants, paints and potions. (2023)
- Main Title:
- Poison on the early modern English stage : plants, paints and potions
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Lisa Hopkins, Bill Angus.
- Editors:
- Hopkins, Lisa, 1962-
Angus, Bill - Contents:
- Introduction; Bill Angus and Lisa Hopkins; ; Part I: Sources of poison; ; 1 ‘Balms and gums and heavy cheers’: Shakespeare’s poison gardens; Lisa Hopkins; ; 2 Shakespeare and the snakehandlers: venom, vermin and the circulation of eco-social energy in Renaissance drama; Todd Andrew Borlik; ; 3 Shakespeare’s ‘baleful mistletoe’; Susan C. Staub; ; 4 Poisoning and poisonous Black bodies: Egyptian magic on the early modern stage; Nour El Gazzaz; ; Part II: Poisoners; ; 5 ‘Spit thy poison’: the rhetoric of poison in Marston’s and Webster’s Italianate drama; Yan Brailowsky; ; 6 Poisonous intent, or how to get away with attempted murder on the early modern stage; Anthony Archdeacon; ; 7 ‘Let this deadly draught purge clean my Soul from sin’: poisons and remedies in Margaret Cavendish’s drama; Delilah Bermudez Brataas; ; 8 Poxy doxies and poison damsels: venereal infection and the myth of the venomous woman in early modern literature; Dee Anna Phares; ; Part III: Victims; ; 9 ‘Thou didst eat my lips’: swallowing passion in William Davenant’s The Tragedy of Albovine ; Kibrina Davey; ; 10 ‘The leperous distilment’: authority, informers and the poisoned ear; Bill Angus; ; 11 Playing with poison: murder, proof and confession in early modern revenge; Jessica Apolloni; ; 12 ‘No healthsome air breathes in’: spiritual poison in Romeo and Juliet ; Khristian S. Smith; ; 13 ‘Death’s counterfeit’: the art of undying and the Machiavels in The Jew of Malta and Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany ;Introduction; Bill Angus and Lisa Hopkins; ; Part I: Sources of poison; ; 1 ‘Balms and gums and heavy cheers’: Shakespeare’s poison gardens; Lisa Hopkins; ; 2 Shakespeare and the snakehandlers: venom, vermin and the circulation of eco-social energy in Renaissance drama; Todd Andrew Borlik; ; 3 Shakespeare’s ‘baleful mistletoe’; Susan C. Staub; ; 4 Poisoning and poisonous Black bodies: Egyptian magic on the early modern stage; Nour El Gazzaz; ; Part II: Poisoners; ; 5 ‘Spit thy poison’: the rhetoric of poison in Marston’s and Webster’s Italianate drama; Yan Brailowsky; ; 6 Poisonous intent, or how to get away with attempted murder on the early modern stage; Anthony Archdeacon; ; 7 ‘Let this deadly draught purge clean my Soul from sin’: poisons and remedies in Margaret Cavendish’s drama; Delilah Bermudez Brataas; ; 8 Poxy doxies and poison damsels: venereal infection and the myth of the venomous woman in early modern literature; Dee Anna Phares; ; Part III: Victims; ; 9 ‘Thou didst eat my lips’: swallowing passion in William Davenant’s The Tragedy of Albovine ; Kibrina Davey; ; 10 ‘The leperous distilment’: authority, informers and the poisoned ear; Bill Angus; ; 11 Playing with poison: murder, proof and confession in early modern revenge; Jessica Apolloni; ; 12 ‘No healthsome air breathes in’: spiritual poison in Romeo and Juliet ; Khristian S. Smith; ; 13 ‘Death’s counterfeit’: the art of undying and the Machiavels in The Jew of Malta and Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany ; Subarna Mondal; ; ; Index … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:
- 2023
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
- Subjects:
- 822.3093552
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
Poisons in literature
Poisoning in literature
Poisons -- Social aspects
Poisoning -- Social aspects
Literature and society - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781526159915
9781526159939 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781526159922
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