"Unnatural and Horrid Physic": Pharmaceutical Theater in Jonson and Webster -- "A Thing Like Death": Shakespeare's Narcotic Theatre -- "Polluted with Counterfeit Colours": Cosmetic Theatre -- "Kiss His Lips to Death": Poisonous Seductions in Massinger and Middleton -- The Vulnerable Ear: Hamlet's Poisonous Theater -- Epilogue: Theater's Antidotes
Summary
In this text the author argues that the power of the theatre in early modern England, as well as the striking hostility to it stems from the pervasive contemporary idea that drama altered the body as well as the mind
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-204) and index
