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Care and Contagion in Shakespeare's Changing World
By Darryl Chalk
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Description
The role of the spectators who found themselves represented in such themes of caregiving in times of crisis finds new meaning in Chalk and Totaro's framing. Foregrounded by pioneering archival research, chapters provide new insights into several Shakespeare plays performed on stages in London and at the court of King James I, as well as several plays by his contemporaries including Webster, Dekker, and Middleton. Contributors explore plague and privilege in Romeo and Juliet, servants and caregiving in King Lear, women and herbal medicine in The Winter's Tale, astrology in The Duchess of Malfi, and the humour that attaches itself to illness in The Roaring Girl. These case studies expand our understanding of the caregiving that connected people across place and time as powerfully as the lived experience of disease did.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
274
Release Date:
2025-11-13
Publication Date:
2025-11-13
Publisher:
The Arden Shakespeare
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1350425079
ISBN13:
9781350425071
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Weight:
480 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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