Constructing Monsters in Shakespeare's Drama and Early Modern Culture
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Constructing Monsters in Shakespeare's Drama and Early Modern Culture

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Constructing Monsters in Shakespeare's Drama and Early Modern Culture

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Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture argues for the crucial place of the 'monster' in the early modern imagination. Burnett traces the metaphorical significance of 'monstrous' forms across a range of early modern exhibition spaces - fairground displays, 'cabinets of curiosity' and court entertainments - to contend that the 'monster' finds its most intriguing manifestation in the investments and practices of contemporary theatre. The study's new readings of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson make a powerful case for the drama's contribution to debates about the 'extraordinary body'.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2002
ISBN
9781403919359
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism in Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 Mapping ‘Monsters’
  7. 2 ‘The strangest men that ever Nature made’: Manufacturing ‘Monsters’ in Tamburlaine the Great
  8. 3 ‘Monsters’ and ‘Molas’: Body Politics in Richard III
  9. 4 ‘As it is credibly thought’: Conceiving ‘Monsters’ in Othello
  10. 5 ‘Were I in England now’: Localizing ‘Monsters’ in The Tempest
  11. 6 ‘If there be never a servant monster’:Translating ‘Monsters’ in Bartholomew Fair
  12. Epilogue
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index