M A Katritzky

Healing, Performance and Ceremony in the Writings of Three Early Modern Physicians

Hippolytus Guarinonius and the Brothers Felix and Thomas Platter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the interfaces between healing and performance in early modern Europe, this study focuses on three physicians, the Swiss Platter brothers and their Austrian colleague Guarinonius. Providing the first English language assessment of their substantial theatrical writings, the volume contextualizes these within an overview of the three physicians' medical practice, careers and publications, and of the role of performance in the early modern healthcare economy. Substantial translations of key passages from these physicians' writings, are considered in the light of a wide selection of early modern images and texts relating to healers and performers, many previously disregarded in this context. This allows the volume to locate these theatrical writings in their rightful place in the mainstream of medical and theatre history, thus broadening our knowledge of the interface between healing and performance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 466
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 835g
• ISBN-13: 9780754667070
• ISBN-10: 0754667073
• Artikelnr.: 44971131

Autorenporträt

M.A. Katritzky is the Barbara Wilkes Research Fellow in Theatre Studies in the English Department of The Open University, UK, and author of The Art of Commedia: A study in the commedia dell'arte 1560-1620 with special reference to the visual records (2006) and Women, Medicine and Theatre 1500-1750: Literary Mountebanks and Performing Quacks (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Part I Introduction: Healing performance and ceremony in the writings of three physicians
The brothers Felix Platter (1536-1614) and Thomas Platter (1574-1628)
Hippolytus Guarinonius (1571-1654). Part II Ceremony and Festival: 'Christian fools with varnish'd faces'
Jewish traditions and ceremonies in Montpellier and Avignon
Physicians at court festivals
Commedia dell'arte costumes at a German court wedding of 1598. Part III Healers and Performers: Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare and English actors in Europe
Marketplace healers and performers
Medicine, magic and superstition
Performing monsters. Part IV Performing Healing: Commedia dell'Arte Quack Troupes: A new identification for 'Zan Bragetta': Giovanni Paulo Alfieri
Quack performances in Guarinonius's Grewel
Marketing medicine, exemplifying folly: lazzi and the deadly sins
Physical, mental and spiritual
health: stage fools in a medical treatise. Part V Source Texts: Felix Platter: the 1598 wedding of Johann Georg, Count of Hohenzollern and Franziska, Countess of Salm
Thomas Platter in Avignon: Jewish life and a performing quack troup in 1598
Hippolytus Guarinonius's Grewel: 35 commedia dell'arte lazzi
Bibliography
Index.