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Staging anatomies : dissection and spectacle in early Stuart tragedy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nunn, Hillary M., 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2005]
Series:Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.
Subjects:
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
English drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism.
Human dissection > History > 17th century.
London (England) > In literature.
City and town life in literature.
Spectacular, The, in literature.
Violence in literature.
Medicine in Literature > England.
Dissection > history > England.
Drama > history > England.
History, 17th Century > England.
Human Body > England.
Violence > England.
Table of Contents:
  • The life of the city : bodies and boundaries in early Stuart London
  • The dead in action : the uses of lifeless flesh on the early Stuart stage
  • Lethal passivity : perspective, painting, and the staging of female bodies
  • Believing your eyes : witnessing, blindings, and staged violence
  • The dramatic spectacle of human anatomy.