{"product_id":"staged-transgression-in-shakespeares-england-palgrave-shakespeare-studies-9781137349347","title":"Staged Transgression in Shakespeares England Palgrave Shakespeare Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStaged Transgression in Shakespeare's England is a groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays, drawing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss and challenge critical assumptions about the transgressive nature of the early modern English stage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wisely, the editors have not grouped the essays according to categories that one might expect in a book on transgression (race, gender, politics, etc), thereby leaving the reader free to make their own connections in a series of essays well worth reading in their entirety... Scrutinizing different transgressive behaviour produces some fresh insights into familiar plays throughout... overall a very rich, intelligent and rewarding book.\" Sarah Dustagheer, The Review of English Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction: Stages of Transgression; Rory Loughnane.- 1. \"On the most Eminent seate thereof is Gouernement Illustrated\": staging power in the Lord Mayor's Show; Tracey Hill.- 2. The Transgressive Stage Player; William Ingram.- 3. \"Ha, Ha, Ha\": Shakespeare and the edge of laughter; Adam Smyth.- 4. \"Have we done aught amiss?\": Transgression, Indirection and Audience Reception in Titus Andronicus; Darragh Greene.- 5. The King's Three Bodies: Resistance Theory and Richard III; Rob Carson.- 6. Marriage, Politics and Law in The Tragedy of Mariam and The Duchess of Malfi; Christina Luckyj.- 7. Incapacitated Will; Rebecca Lemon.- 8. Transgression Embodied: Medicine, Religion and Shakespeare's Dramatised Persons; Thomas Rist.- 9. The Taming of the Jew: Spit and the Civilizing Process in The Merchant of Venice; Brett D. Hirsch.- 10. 'Edgar I Nothing Am': Blackface in King Lear; Benjamin Minor and Ayanna Thompson.- 11. Marrying the Dead: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline and The Tempest; Lisa Hopkins.- 12. Speaking Out of Turn: Gender, Language and Transgression in Early Modern England; Danielle Clarke.- 13. Rethinking Transgression with Shakespeare's Bawds; Edel Semple.- 14. 'Nothing but pickled cucumbers': The Longing Wives of Middletonian City Comedy; Celia R. Caputi.- 15. Lady Macbeth and Othello, Transgression and Convention in Early Modern Tragedy; Andrew J. Power.- 16. \"How to vse your Brothers Brotherly\": Civility, Incivility and Civil War in 3 Henry VI; Christopher Ivic.- Afterword; Jean E. Howard.- Bibliography.- Index.- ","brand":"Palgrave MacMillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769065046359,"sku":"9781137349347","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781137349347.jpg?v=1758719508","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/staged-transgression-in-shakespeares-england-palgrave-shakespeare-studies-9781137349347","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}