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.) |
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9780874136142 (pbk.) |
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