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Subject(s)

• English literature—Early modern, 1500-1700—History and criticism [Browse]
• Plague in literature [Browse]
• Diseases and literature—England—History—17th century [Browse]
• Diseases and literature—England—History—16th century [Browse]
• Plague—England—History [Browse]
• Diseases in literature [Browse]

Related name

• Gilman, Ernest B., 1946- [Browse]
• Totaro, Rebecca Carol Noel, 1968- [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 14. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 14 [More in this series]

Summary note

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-

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Making the Plague Serve Form and Function, 1563-1666; 1 Writing the Plague in English Prose Satire; 2 Plague Space and Played Space in Urban Drama, 1604; 3 Physical and Spiritual Illness: Narrative Appropriations of the Bills of Mortality; Part II: Governing Bodies in Plague-Time; 4 Contagious Figurations: Plague and the Impenetrable Nation after the Death of Elizabeth; 5 "Thinking to pass unknown": Measure for Measure, the Plague, and the Accession of James I
• Part III: Performances, Playhouses, and the Sites of Re-Creation6 "Sweet recreation barred": The Case for Playgoing in Plague-Time; 7 Shakespeare's Dual Lexicons of Plague: Infections in Speech and Space; 8 "A plague on both your houses": Sites of Comfort and Terror in Early Modern Drama; Part IV: Contemporary Turns; 9 Plague in A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Girardian Reading of Bottom and Hippolyta; 10 Dekker's and Middleton's Plague Pamphlets as Environmental Literature; Afterword: Plague and Metaphor; Notes on Contributors; Index

ISBN

• 1-136-96323-5
• 1-136-96324-3
• 1-282-78183-9
• 9786612781834
• 0-203-85056-4

OCLC

• 664551577
• 671644404

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203850565

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