Dismemberment in the Medieval and Early Modern English Imaginary: The Performance of Difference
(Part of the Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Gender, Performance and Material Culture Series)
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The medieval and early modern English imaginary encompasses a broad range of negative and positive dismemberments, from the castration anxieties of Turk plays to the elite practices of distributive burial. This study argues that representations and instances of bodily fragmentation illustrated and performed acts of exclusion and inclusion, detaching not only limbs from bodies but individuals from identity groups. Within this context it...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1501517864
ISBN13:9781501517860
Release Date:November 2020
Publisher:Medieval Institute Publications
Length:313 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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