Hopkins / Unknown / Angus Poison on the early modern English stage

Plants, paints and potions
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5993-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

This book explores some of the many instances of poisoning in early modern plays. It considers the practical, legal and epistemological aspects of poison plays and analyses the cultural work they perform, which includes questions related to race, religion, nationality, gender and humans’ relationship to the environment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Hopkins, Lisa

Angus, Bill

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Bill Angus and Lisa Hopkins

Part I: Sources of poison

1 ‘Balms and gums and heavy cheers’: Shakespeare’s poison gardens
Lisa Hopkins

2 Shakespeare and the snakehandlers: venom, vermin and the circulation of eco-social energy in Renaissance drama
Todd Andrew Borlik

3 Shakespeare’s ‘baleful mistletoe’
Susan C. Staub

4 Poisoning and poisonous Black bodies: Egyptian magic on the early modern stage
Nour El Gazzaz

Part II: Poisoners

5 ‘Spit thy poison’: the rhetoric of poison in Marston’s and Webster’s Italianate drama
Yan Brailowsky

6 Poisonous intent, or how to get away with attempted murder on the early modern stage
Anthony Archdeacon

7 ‘Let this deadly draught purge clean my Soul from sin’: poisons and remedies in Margaret Cavendish’s drama
Delilah Bermudez Brataas

8 Poxy doxies and poison damsels: venereal infection and the myth of the venomous woman in early modern literature
Dee Anna Phares

Part III: Victims

9 ‘Thou didst eat my lips’: swallowing passion in William Davenant’s The Tragedy of Albovine
Kibrina Davey

10 ‘The leperous distilment’: authority, informers and the poisoned ear
Bill Angus

11 Playing with poison: murder, proof and confession in early modern revenge
Jessica Apolloni

12 ‘No healthsome air breathes in’: spiritual poison in Romeo and Juliet
Khristian S. Smith

13 ‘Death’s counterfeit’: the art of undying and the Machiavels in The Jew of Malta and Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany
Subarna Mondal

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hopkins Lisa:
Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam UniversityBill Angus is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Massey University, New Zealand

Lisa Hopkins is Professor Emerita of English at Sheffield Hallam University

Kibrina Davey received her PhD in English literature at Sheffield Hallam University