Representing the Plague in Early Modern England

Representing the Plague in Early Modern England

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This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that crisis, as early modern writers transformed the plague into literature.

First published
2010
Publishers
Taylor & Francis Group
Subjects
English literature·History and criticism·Early modern·1500-1700plague·Great britain·Medicine in literature·Drama·Great britain·History·Stuarts·1603-1714great britain·History·Tudors·1485-1603

TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction, Rebecca Totaro Section One: Making the Plague Serve Form and Function, 1563-1666 1: Writing the Plague in English Prose Satire, William Kerwin 2: Plague Space and Played Space in Urban Drama, 1604, Kelly J. Stage 3: Physical and Spiritual Illness: Narrative Appropriations of the Bills of Mortality, Erin Sullivan Section Two: Governing Bodies in Plague-Time 4: Contagious Figurations: Plague and the Impenetrable Nation after the Death of Elizabeth, Richelle Munkhoff 5: "Thinking to pass unknown": Measure for Measure, the Plague, and the Accession of James I, James D.

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