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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Beyond the Plague - Darryl Chalk
• 2. Comedy, the Senses, and Social Contagion in Plays Confused in Five Actions and The Comedy of Errors - Jennie Votava
• 3. "A Deal of Stinking Breath": The Smell of Contagion in the Early Modern Playhouse - Amy Kenny
• 4. "Go Touch his Life": Contagious Malice and the Power of Touch in The Witch of Edmonton - Bronwyn Johnston
• 5. Kisses and Contagion in Troilus and Cressida - Jennifer Forsyth
• 6. "Search this Ulcer Soundly": Sex as Contagion in The Changeling and Othello - Emily Weissbourd
• 7. "Amend thy Face": Contagion and Disgust in the Henriad - Ariane M. Balizet
• 8. Bad Dancing and Contagious Embarrassment in More Dissemblers Besides Women - Jennifer Panek
• 9. Contagious Pity: Cultural Differences and the Language of Contagion in Titus Andronicus - Jennifer Feather
• 10. The Hungry Meme and Political Contagion in Coriolanus - Clifford Werier
• 11. Hamlet's Story/Stories of Hamlet: Shakespeare's Theatre, the Plague, and Contagious Storytelling - J. F. Bernard
• 12. "Nature Naturized": Plague, Contagious Atheism, and The Alchemist - John Estabillo
• 12. Embedded in Shakespeare's "Fair Verona" - Rebecca Totaro
• 13. Afterword - Mary Floyd-Wilson.