E. Decamp

Civic and Medical Worlds in Early Modern England (eBook, PDF)

Performing Barbery and Surgery

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137471567
• Artikelnr.: 46943029

Autorenporträt

Inhaltsangabe

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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Conventions
Introduction: Naming of Parts: Barber, Surgeon and Barber-Surgeon
1. 'Settinge up a shoppe': Inventories and Props
2. 'Lend me thy basin, apron and razor': Disguise, (Mis)Appropriation
and Play
3. Semiotics of Barber-Surgery in Shakespeare: Chair and Basin
4. 'And pleasant harmonie shall sound in your eares': Ballads, Music and Groans, Snip-snaps, Fiddlesticks, Ear-picks and Wax
5. 'An unnecessary flood of words'?
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

"The book provides a compelling new study of the complexities and performance of early modern barbering and the panoply of meanings that could be attached not only to the individuals themselves, but to their shops, practices and tools. It will make an important and welcome contribution to both the literary and medical histories of this sometimes neglected group of practitioners." (Alun Withey, Gesnerus, Vol. 75 (2), 2018)
"Decamp's thorough and erudite book will not only train readers to notice both barbers and surgeons in early modern drama and early modern English culture more generally. It also tunes our ears, as barbers might have, to the complex, historically specific resonances of objects (such as basins), words (including 'trim' and 'barbarous'), and names including Lavinia (associated with washing) and Chiron (who shares with the chirurgeon a root in the Greek word for hand)." (Frances E. Dolan, Medical History, Vol. 61 (2), April, 2017)