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"A plague 'o both your houses" : = Shakespeare and early modern plague writing.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"A plague 'o both your houses" :/
Reminder of title:	Shakespeare and early modern plague writing.
Author:	DeWall, Nichole.
Description:	1 online resource (204 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-03, Section: A, page: 9850.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-03A.
Subject:	British & Irish literature. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780549522331

"A plague 'o both your houses" : = Shakespeare and early modern plague writing.
DeWall, Nichole.

"A plague 'o both your houses" :Shakespeare and early modern plague writing. - 1 online resource (204 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-03, Section: A, page: 9850.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northeastern University, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation investigates what Shakespeare's drama seems to do with the anxieties and fantasies attendant upon the early modern plague experience. At times, it seems, the plague exerts its presence in its absence; at others, the plague seems to saturate every aspect of the plays' fictive worlds. Moreover, my inquiry seeks to understand what kind of cultural and psychical work Shakespeare's plays performed, both for himself and for his audience members. What was it about the plague experience that compelled Shakespeare to return to it in his works, despite how devastating it was to his creative and financial prospects to remind people of the disease? And what compelled his audience members to venture into the playhouses, despite the fact that these sites were thought to be uniquely capable of spreading the disease? I am particularly interested in how the plays provide for Shakespeare and his audiences a language to know the unknowable, or communicate the unspeakable. I read the plays in concert with the hundreds of plague sermons, poems, and medical tracts that glutted the early modern print marketplace during and between outbreaks. Special attention is given to Romeo and Juliet and Coriolanus.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780549522331Subjects--Topical Terms:

1148425
British & Irish literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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