Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture

✍ Scribed by Mark Burnett

Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 271
Edition: First Edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture argues for the crucial place of the 'monster' in the early modern imagination. The author traces the metaphorical significance of 'monstrous' forms across a range of early modern exhibition spaces - fairground displays, 'cabinets of curiosity' and court entertainments - to contend that the 'monster' finds its most intriguing manifestation in the investments and practices of contemporary theater. The study's new readings of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Jonson make a powerful case for the drama's contribution to debates about the 'extraordinary body'.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
1. Mapping ‘Monsters’......Page 17
2. ‘The strangest men that ever Nature made’......Page 42
3. ‘Monsters’ and ‘Molas’: Body Politics in Richard III......Page 74
4. ‘As it is credibly thought’: Conceiving ‘Monsters’ in Othello......Page 104
5. ‘Were I in England now’: Localizing ‘Monsters’ in The Tempest......Page 134
6. ‘If there be never a servant-monster’......Page 163
Epilogue......Page 187
Notes......Page 192
Bibliography......Page 228
Index......Page 252

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