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Title:

Representing the plague in early modern England / edited by Rebecca Totaro and Ernest B. Gilman.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

vi, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Plague in literature.
Diseases and literature--England--History--17th century.
Diseases and literature--England--History--16th century.
Plague--England--History.
Diseases in literature.
Medicine in Literature--Great Britain.
Drama--Great Britain.
History, 16th Century--Great Britain.
History, 17th Century--Great Britain.
Plague--history--Great Britain.

Other Authors:

Totaro, Rebecca Carol Noel, 1968-
Gilman, Ernest B., 1946-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Making the plague serve form and function, 1563-1666. Writing the plague in English prose satire / William Kerwin; Plague space and played space in urban drama, 1604 / Kelly J. Stage; Physical and spiritual illness: narrative appropriations of the Bills of mortality / Erin Sullivan -- Governing bodies in plague-time. Contagious figurations: plague and the impenetrable nation after the death of Elizabeth / Richelle Munkhoff; "Thinking to pass unknown": Measure for measure, the plague, and the accession of James I / James D. Mardock -- Performances, playhouses, and the sites of re-creation. "Sweet recreation barred": the case for playgoing in plague-time / Nichole DeWall; Shakespeare's dual lexicons of plague: infections in speech and space / Paula S. Berggren; "A plague on both your houses": sites of comfort and terror in early modern drama / Barbara H. Traister -- Contemporary turns. Plague in A midsummer night's dream: a Girardian reading of Bottom and Hippolyta / Matthew Thiele; Dekker's and Middleton's plague pamphlets as environmental literature / Charles Whitney.

Series:

Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 14

ISBN:

0203850564 (ebk.)
9780203850565 (ebk.)
0415877970 (hbk.)
9780415877978 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)449889917

LCCN:

2009049213

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)