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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

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

Bibliographic references

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.

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ISBN

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

LCCN

2009049213

OCLC

449889917

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