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Author Owens, Margaret E., 1961-
Title Stages of dismemberment : the fragmented body in late medieval and early modern drama / Margaret E. Owens.
Publication Info Newark DE : University of Delaware Press, 2005.


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Descript 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
ISBN 9780874138887 (hbk.)
9780874136142 (pbk.)
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Author Owens, Margaret E., 1961-
Subject English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
English drama -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.
Dismemberment in literature.
Mutilation in literature.
Beheading in literature.
Reformation -- England.
Descript 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
ISBN 9780874138887 (hbk.)
9780874136142 (pbk.)
Author Owens, Margaret E., 1961-
Subject English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
English drama -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.
Dismemberment in literature.
Mutilation in literature.
Beheading in literature.
Reformation -- England.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL 6th Floor  PR 658 B63 O9  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
English drama -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.
Dismemberment in literature.
Mutilation in literature.
Beheading in literature.
Reformation -- England.
Descript 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
ISBN 9780874138887 (hbk.)
9780874136142 (pbk.)

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