The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (610 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801480604 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Interesting" according to Lilheart17. This book offers interesting information about how people in the early modern period perceived the body. It is fascinating to see how much their opinions of the body mirror our modern ones!. Bonam Pak said Fascinating Information, Even if Not the Best of All Reading Experiences. I read the original 199Fascinating Information, Even if Not the Best of All Reading Experiences I read the original 1993 paperback edition. Half a star is subtracted for the occasional line having been printed just a tad squashed in comparison to the others - accumulating to quite an eye irritant.This book is about the potentially embarrassing "humors", i.e. body fluids, around the time of William Shakespeare. In fact, his plays feature dominantly in this light.. paperback edition. Half a star is subtracted for the occasional line having been printed just a tad squashed in comparison to the others - accumulating to quite an eye irritant.This book is about the potentially embarrassing "humors", i.e. body fluids, around the time of William Shakespeare. In fact, his plays feature dominantly in this light.
In this challenging and innovative book, Gail Kern Paster examines representations of the body in Elizabethan-Jacobean drama in the light of humoral medical theory, tracing the connections between the history of the visible social body and the history of the subject's body as experienced from within.. Men and women in early modern Europe experienced their bodies very differently from the ways in which contemporary men and women do