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Drugs and theatre in early modern England / Tanya Pollard.
- Title
- Drugs and theatre in early modern England / Tanya Pollard.
- Author
- Pollard, Tanya.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Details
- Description
- vii, 211 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Draws upon both medical and literary research to show the preoccupation of Shakespeare and his contemporaries with drugs and poisons in their dramas.
- Subject
- Zielke-Nadkarni, Andrea 1956-
- Geschichte 1580-1642
- 1500-1600
- Geschichte 1580-1642
- English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism
- Drugs in literature
- Poisons in literature
- Drugs
- Vergif
- Toneelstukken
- Engels
- Drama > history > England
- Substance-Related Disorders > history > England
- History, Early Modern 1451-1600 > England
- Literature, Modern > history > England
- Poisons > history > England
- Illicit Drugs > history > England
- England
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references ( p. [187] - 204) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : dangerous remedies -- "Unnatural and horrid physic" : pharmaceutical theater in Jonson and Webster -- "A thing like death" : Shakespeare's narcotic theater -- "Polluted with counterfeit colours" : cosmetic theater -- Poisoned kisses : theater of seduction -- Vulnerable ears : Hamlet and poisonous theater -- Epilogue : theater's antidotes.
- ISBN
- 019927083X (hbk.)
- 9780199270835 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2005297646
- OCLC
- 60559215
- SCSB-11392989
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library