Constructing Monsters in Shakespeare’s Drama and Early Modern Culture
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Constructing Monsters in Shakespeare’s Drama and Early Modern Culture

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Full Title

Constructing Monsters in Shakespeare\'s Drama and Early Modern Culture
Author(s)

Mark Thornton Burnett
Edition
ISBN

9781403919359, 9780333914342, 9781349422944
Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Constructing ‘Monsters’ in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture argues for the crucial place of the ‘monster’ in the early modern imagination. Burnett traces the metaphorical significance of ‘monstrous’ forms across a range of early modern exhibition spaces – fairground displays, ‘cabinets of curiosity’ and court entertainments – to contend that the ‘monster’ finds its most intriguing manifestation in the investments and practices of contemporary theatre. The study’s new readings of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson make a powerful case for the drama’s contribution to debates about the ‘extraordinary body’.

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