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Stages of dismemberment : the fragmented body in late medieval and early modern drama
- Title
- Stages of dismemberment : the fragmented body in late medieval and early modern drama / Margaret E. Owens.
- Author
- Owens, Margaret E., 1961-
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c2005.
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- Description
- 332 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-324) and index.
- Contents
- "The head will bounce three times": pre-Reformation performances of bodily fragmentation -- "As if it were a child pissing": critical and doctrinal strategies for containing the wondrous excess of the fragmented body in late medieval drama -- The revenge of the martyred body: R.B.'s Apius and Virginia -- "Our office is to die, yours but to gaze": judicial beheadings on the early modern stage -- Severed heads and maimed bodies: carnage in the history play -- The many-headed monster in 2 Henry VI -- The return of the repressed body: dismemberment in the revenge tradition -- Desperate juggling knacks: the rehearsal of the grotesque in Doctor Faustus.
- Call Number
- JFE 05-3586
- ISBN
- 0874138884 (alk. paper)
- 0874136148 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004019366
- OCLC
- 56324204
- Author
- Owens, Margaret E., 1961-
- Title
- Stages of dismemberment : the fragmented body in late medieval and early modern drama / Margaret E. Owens.
- Imprint
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-324) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 05-3586