Desperate In Delaware

✍ Scribed by Clemmons, Caroline

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 94 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B089RW8WV8

✦ Synopsis

"This study has essentially two focuses, two stories to tell. One story traces the secularization, theatricalization, and uncanny returns of suppressed religious culture in early modern drama. The other story concerns the tendency of the theater to expose contingencies and gaps in politico-judicial practices of spectacular violence." "The investigation covers a broad range of plays dating from the fifteenth century to the closing of the theatres in 1642; however, three chapters are devoted to extensive analysis of single plays: R.B.'s Apius and Virginia, Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI, and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus."--Jacket.;"The head will bounce three times": pre-Reformation performances of bodily fragmentation -- "As if it were a child pissing": critical and doctrinal strategies for containing the wondrous excess of the fragmented body in late medieval drama -- The revenge of the martyred body: R.B.'s Apius and Virginia -- "Our office is to die, yours but to gaze": judicial beheadings on the early modern stage -- Severed heads and maimed bodies: carnage in the history play -- The many-headed monster in 2 Henry VI -- The return of the repressed body: dismemberment in the revenge tradition -- Desperate juggling knacks: the rehearsal of the grotesque in Doctor Faustus.