Stages of Dismemberment: The Fragmented Body in Late Medieval and Early Modern Drama

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University of Delaware Press, 2005 - 332 ページ
"This study has essentially two focuses, two stories to tell. One story traces the secularization, theatricalization, and uncanny returns of suppressed religious culture in early modern drama. The other story concerns the tendency of the theater to expose contingencies and gaps in politico-judicial practices of spectacular violence." "The investigation covers a broad range of plays dating from the fifteenth century to the closing of the theatres in 1642; however, three chapters are devoted to extensive analysis of single plays: R.B.'s Apius and Virginia, Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI, and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus."--Jacket.

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Introduction
11
The head will bounce three times PreReformation Performances of Bodily Fragmentation
24
As if it were a child pissing Critical and Doctrinal Strategies for Containing the Wondrous Excess of the Fragmented Body in Late Medieval Drama
48
The Revenge of the Martyred Body R Bs Apius and Virginia
84
Our Office is to Die Yours but to Gaze Judicial Beheadings on the Early Modern Stage
115
Severed Heads and Maimed Bodies Carnage in the History Play
144
The ManyHeaded Monster in 2 Henry VI
187
The Return of the Repressed Body Dismemberment in the Revenge Tradition
202
Desperate Juggling Knacks The Rehearsal of the Grotesque in Doctor Faustus
225
Afterword
251
Notes
254
Works Cited
301
Index
325
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