The Body Embarrassed : : Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England / / Gail Kern Paster.
Men and women in early modern Europe experienced their bodies very differently from the ways in which contemporary men and women do. In this challenging and innovative book, Gail Kern Pasterexamines representations of the body in Elizabethan-Jacobean drama in the light of humoral medical theory, tra...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1993 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 12 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTE ON TEXTS
- INTRODUCTION. Civilizing the Humoral Body
- 1. LEAKY VESSELS: The Incontinent Women of City Comedy
- 2. LAUDABLE BLOOD: Bleeding, Difference, and Humoral Embarrassment
- 3. COVERING His Ass: The Scatological Imperatives of Comedy
- 4. COMPLYING WITH THE Due: Narratives of Birth and the Reproduction of Shame
- 5. QUARRELING WITH THE DUG, or I AM GLAD You DID NOT NURSE HIM
- INDEX