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Drugs and theater in early modern England

Author: Tanya Pollard
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : 1. publView all editions and formats
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Asks why Shakespeare and his contemporary playwrights were preoccupied with drugs and poisons, and why critics, supporters, and writers of plays adopted a chemical vocabulary to describe the effects  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Criticism, interpretation, etc
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tanya Pollard
ISBN: 019927083X 9780199270835
OCLC Number: 237051586
Description: VII, 211 Seiten
Contents: 1. "Unnatural and Horrid Physic": Pharmaceutical Theatre in Jonson and Webster ; 2. "A Thing Like Death": Shakespeare's Narcotic Theatre ; 3. "Polluted with Counterfeit Colours": Cosmetic Theatre ; 4. "Kiss His Lips to Death": Poisonous Seductions in Massinger and Middleton ; 5. The Vulnerable Ear: Hamlet's Poisonous Theatre ; Epilogue: Theatre's Antidotes
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thought-provoking and important...a genuinely illuminating book...It gives a fresh and provocative set of ideas to bring to bear...and for that it deserves high praise. * Matthew Steggle, Notes and Read more...

 
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