Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Chalk, Darryl (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Floyd-Wilson, Mary (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Subjects: Literature, Modern.; Literature-History and criticism.; Theater-History.; British literature.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; Literary History.; Theatre History.; British and Irish Literature.

This collection of essays considers what constituted contagion in the minds of early moderns in the absence of modern germ theory. In a wide range of essays focused on early modern drama and the culture of theater, contributors explore how ideas of contagion not only inform representations of the se...