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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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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