Tanya Pollard

Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England asks both why Shakespeare and his contemporary playwrights were so preoccupied with drugs and poisons, and why critics, supporters, and writers of plays adopted a chemical vocabulary to describe the effects of the theater on audiences. Through original medical and literary research, Pollard shows that the link between pharmacy and theater in the period demonstrates a model of drama in which plays exert a material impact on spectators' bodies. This book argues that the power of the theater in early modern England, as well as the striking hostility to it, stems from the pervasive contemporary idea that drama altered the body as well as the mind.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780199270835
• ISBN-10: 019927083X
• Artikelnr.: 24806399

Autorenporträt

Tanya Pollard, Assistant Professor of English Literature at Montclair State University

Inhaltsangabe

* 1.: "Unnatural and Horrid Physic": Pharmaceutical Theatre in Jonson
and Webster
* 2.: "A Thing Like Death": Shakespeare's Narcotic Theatre
* 3.: "Polluted with Counterfeit Colours": Cosmetic Theatre
* 4.: "Kiss His Lips to Death": Poisonous Seductions in Massinger and
Middleton
* 5.: The Vulnerable Ear: Hamlet's Poisonous Theatre
* Epilogue: Theatre's Antidotes