Representing the plague in early modern England
By: edited by Rebecca Totaro and Ernest B. Gilman.
Contributors: Totaro, Rebecca Carol Noel, 1968-; Gilman, Ernest B., 1946-
Series: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture -- 14
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780415877978; 9780203850565
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Section one. Making the plague serve form and function, 1563-1666: Chapter one: Writing the plague in English prose satire / William Kerwin; Chapter two: Plague space and played space in urban drama, 1604 / Kelly J. Stage; Chapter three: Physical and spiritual illness: Narrative appropriations of the Bills of mortality / Erin Sullivan; title: Section two. Governing bodies in plague-time: Chapter four: Contagious figurations: plague and the impenetrable nation after the death of Elizabeth / Richelle Munkhoff; Chapter five: Thinking to pass unknown: Measure for Measure, the plague, and the accession of James I / James D. Mardock; title: Section three. Performances, playhouses, and the sites of re-creation: Chapter six: "Sweet recreation barred": the case for playgoing in plague-time / Nichole DeWall; Chapter seven: Shakespeare's dual lexicons of plague: infections in speech and space / Paula S. Berggren; Chapter eight: "A plague on both your houses": sites of comfort and terror in early modern drama / Barbara H. Traister; title: Section four. Contemporary turns: Chapter nine: Plague in A midsummer night's dream: a Girardian reading of Bottom and Hippolyta / Matthew Thiele; Chapter ten: Dekker's and Middleton's plague pamphlets as environmental literature / Charles Whitney.