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Representing the Plague in Early Modern England

2011 Taylor & Francis ;ISBN: 9780415877978 ;ISBN: 0415877970 ;ISBN: 9780415634182 ;ISBN: 0415634180 ;EISBN: 9780203850565 ;EISBN: 9781136963247 ;EISBN: 0203850564 ;EISBN: 1136963243 ;EISBN: 1136963235 ;EISBN: 9781136963230 ;EISBN: 9780415877978 ;EISBN: 0415877970 ;DOI: 10.4324/9780203850565 ;OCLC: 664551577

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    Representing the Plague in Early Modern England
  • Author: Totaro, Rebecca ; Gilman, Ernest B
  • Gilman, Ernest B. ; Totaro, Rebecca
  • Subjects: Diseases and literature ; Diseases and literature - England - History - 16th century ; Diseases in literature ; Early Modern ; Early Modern History 1500-1750 ; English literature ; Plague ; Plague in literature ; Renaissance Literature ; Shakespeare
  • Description: This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that crisis, as early modern writers transformed the plague into literature. The essays examine the impact of the plague on health, politics, and religion as well as on the plays, prose fiction, and plague bills that stand as witnesses to the experience of a society devastated by contagious disease. Readers will find physicians and moralists wrestling with the mysteries of the disease; erotic escapades staged in plague-time plays; the poignant prose works of William Bullein and Thomas Dekker; the bodies of monarchs who sought to protect themselves from plague; the chameleon-like nature of the plague as literal disease and as metaphor; and future strains of plague, literary and otherwise, which we may face in the globally-minded, technology-dependent, and ecologically-awakened twenty-first century. The bubonic plague compelled change in all aspects of lived experience in Early Modern England, but at the same time, it opened space for writers to explore new ideas and new literary forms—not all of them somber or horrifying and some of them downright hilarious. By representing the plague for their audiences, these writers made an epidemic calamity intelligible: for them, the dreaded disease could signify despair but also hope, bewilderment but also a divine plan, quarantine but also liberty, death but also new life. Acknowledgments Introduction, Rebecca Totaro Section One: Making the Plague Serve Form and Function, 1563-1666 1: Writing the Plague in English Prose Satire, William Kerwin 2: Plague Space and Played Space in Urban Drama, 1604, Kelly J. Stage 3: Physical and Spiritual Illness: Narrative Appropriations of the Bills of Mortality, Erin Sullivan Section Two: Governing Bodies in Plague-Time 4: Contagious Figurations: Plague and the Impenetrable Nation after the Death of Elizabeth, Richelle Munkhoff 5: "Thinking to pass unknown": Measure for Measure, the Plague, and the Accession of James I, James D. Mardock Section Three: Performances, Playhouses, and the Sites of Re-Creation 6: "Sweet recreation barred": The Case for Playgoing in Plague-time, Nichole DeWall 7: Shakespeare’s Dual Lexicons of Plague: Infections in Speech and Space, Paula S. Berggren 8: "A plague on both your houses": Sites of Comfort and Terror in Early Modern Drama, Barbara H. Traister Section Four: Contemporary Turns 9: Plague in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Girardian Reading of Bottom and Hippolyta, Matthew Thiele 10: Dekker’s and Middleton’s Plague Pamphlets as Environmental Literature, Charles Whitney Afterword: Plague and Metaphor, Ernest B. Gilman Notes on Contributors Index Rebecca Totaro is Professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University. She is the author of Suffering in Paradise: The Bubonic Plague in English Literature from More to Milton . Ernest Gilman is Professor of English at NYU. He is the author of Plague Writing in Early Modern England .
  • Publisher: Oxford: Routledge
  • Creation Date: 2011
  • Format: 284
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780415877978
    ISBN: 0415877970
    ISBN: 9780415634182
    ISBN: 0415634180
    EISBN: 9780203850565
    EISBN: 9781136963247
    EISBN: 0203850564
    EISBN: 1136963243
    EISBN: 1136963235
    EISBN: 9781136963230
    EISBN: 9780415877978
    EISBN: 0415877970
    DOI: 10.4324/9780203850565
    OCLC: 664551577
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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