Research Catalog

Title

Performing the Renaissance body : essays on drama, law, and representation / edited by Sidia Fiorato and John Drakakis.

Publication

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2016.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Fiorato, Sidia
• Drakakis, John

Description

ix, 299 pages : music; 24 cm

Series Statement

Law & literature, 2191-8457 ; volume 11

Uniform Title

Law & literature (De Gruyter) ; v. 11.

Subjects

• Human body in literature
• European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600
• European drama > Renaissance, 1450-1600
• Law and literature
• European drama > Renaissance
• European literature > Renaissance
• 1450-1600

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Performances, regulations, and negotiations of the Renaissance body : legal and social perspectives / Sidia Fiorato -- (Disciplining) monstrous Renaissance bodies : staging the witch / Beate Neumaier -- "...Languished..., and then died" : courtroom drama and the bodies of the victims in Thomas Pott's The wonderful discoverie of witches (1612) / Mariangela Tempera -- Constructing alterity : race, gender, and the body in Shakespeare's Othello / Heinz Antor -- Staged and staging bodies as legal and medical sites in Volpone / Roxanne Barbara Doerr -- Representing the body of law in early modern England / Paul Rauffield -- The image of power : Shakespeare's Lord Chief Justice / Ian Ward -- With teeth and nails : the embodied servitude of Étienne de la Boétie / Riccardo Baldissone -- The funeral oration over Caesar's body : techniques of mass communication / Daniela Carpi -- Motionless bodies : Shakespeare's Songs for sleep and death / Raffaele Cutolo -- Katechontic Elizabeth : the physical repository of sovereignty through law, literature and iconography / Cristina Costantini -- Anna of Denmark and the performance of the Queen Consort's sovereignty / Sidia Fiorato -- The body politic, female transgression and punishment in Jacobean tragedy / Aspasia Velissariou.

Call Number

JFE 16-6661

ISBN

• 9783110462593 (hd.bd.)
• 3110462591 (hd.bd.)

LCCN

• 2015298582
• 9783110462593

OCLC

949848685

Title

Performing the Renaissance body : essays on drama, law, and representation / edited by Sidia Fiorato and John Drakakis.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Law & literature, 2191-8457 ; volume 11

Law & literature (De Gruyter) ; v. 11.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1450-1600

Added Author

Fiorato, Sidia, editor.

Drakakis, John, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

9783110462593

Research Call Number

JFE 16-6661