Staging anatomies
Subtitle: dissection and spectacle in early Stuart tragedy
By: Hillary M. Nunn.
Series: Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Body, Human, in literature; English drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism; Human dissection -- History -- 17th century; City and town life in literature; Spectacular, The, in literature; Violence in literature; London (England) -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: The life of the city : bodies and boundaries in early Stuart London; title: The dead in action : the uses of lifeless flesh on the early Stuart stage; title: Lethal passivity : perspective, painting, and the staging of female bodies; title: Believing your eyes : witnessing, blindings, and staged violence; title: The dramatic spectacle of human anatomy.