the fragmented body in late medieval and early modern drama /
Margaret E. Owens
Newark :
University of Delaware Press,
c2005
332 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-324) and index
"The head will bounce three times": pre-Reformation performances of bodily fragmentation -- "As if it were a child pissing": critical and doctrinal strategies for containing the wondrous excess of the fragmented body in late medieval drama -- The revenge of the martyred body: R.B.'s Apius and Virginia -- "Our office is to die, yours but to gaze": judicial beheadings on the early modern stage -- Severed heads and maimed bodies: carnage in the history play -- The many-headed monster in 2 Henry VI -- The return of the repressed body: dismemberment in the revenge tradition -- Desperate juggling knacks: the rehearsal of the grotesque in Doctor Faustus
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Beheading in literature
Dismemberment in literature
English drama-- 17th century-- History and criticism
English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism