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Author Nunn, Hillary M., 1968- author.

Title Staging anatomies : dissection and spectacle in early Stuart tragedy / Hillary M. Nunn
Published Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.
Contents The life of the city : bodies and boundaries in early Stuart London -- The dead in action : the uses of lifeless flesh on the early Stuart stage -- Lethal passivity : perspective, painting, and the staging of female bodies -- Believing your eyes : witnessing, blindings, and staged violence -- The dramatic spectacle of human anatomy
Summary Incorporating views of anatomy's significance from a wide range of sources, this study shows the ways in which early Stuart dramatists called upon Londoners' increasing fascination with anatomical dissection to shape the staging of their tragedies
Notes Originally published: Ashgate Publishing, 2005
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 8, 2017)
Subject English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
Human body in literature.
English drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism
Human dissection -- History -- 17th century
City and town life in literature.
Spectacular, The, in literature.
Violence in literature.
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
City and town life in literature
English drama
English drama (Tragedy)
Human body in literature
Human dissection
Literature
Spectacular, The, in literature
Violence in literature
SUBJECT London (England) -- In literature
Subject England -- London
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
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