Daisy Murray

Twins in Early Modern English Drama and Shakespeare (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume investigates the early modern understanding of twinship, discussing twins appearing in anatomy tracts, midwifery manuals, monstrous birth broadsides, chapbooks, and early modern drama. The book contextualizes dramatic representations of twinship, investigating contemporary discussions in medical and popular literature and how such dialogues resonate with the twin characters appearing on the early modern stage. It will be of interest to those studying Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in relation to the History of Emotions, the Body, and the Medical Humanities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317199632
• Artikelnr.: 47509859

Autorenporträt

Daisy Murray is Higher Education Programme Developer for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Tragedies: The Duchess of Malfi and The Cruel Brother
Chapter Two: Tragicomedies: The Devil's Law Case, The Twins and The
Lovesick Court
Chapter Three: Comedies: Changes: or, Love in a Maze, Patient Grissil, A
Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Ignoramus and Senile Odium
Chapter Four: Shakespearean Comedy: The Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night
Conclusion
Bibliography

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CONTENTS



List of Figures

Acknowledgments



Introduction

Chapter One: Tragedies: The Duchess of Malfi and The Cruel Brother

Chapter Two: Tragicomedies: The Devil's Law Case, The Twins and The Lovesick Court

Chapter Three: Comedies: Changes: or, Love in a Maze, Patient Grissil, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Ignoramus and Senile Odium

Chapter Four: Shakespearean Comedy: The Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night

Conclusion



Bibliography

Rezensionen

"As a new work on an often-discussed but rarely properly studied facet of early modern drama, Murray's text is valuable, but where it shines is in its considera-tion of non-dramatic representation and culture. This book is undeniably within the realm of theatre and theatre history, but it is also a work of social and cultural history around ideas of conception, childbirth, science, and gender. As a resource for scholars thinking about drama, genre, families, twins, science, non-dramatic literary culture, or any one of a number of other specific subtopics, this text is a fresh, insightful volume that will surely open up new avenues of inquiry for its readers."

- Jess Hamlet, University of Alabama, Early Theatre