The Theatre of the Body - Kate Cregan
Staging Death and Embodying Life in Early-Modern London
KORTE INHOUD
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2009Uitgever: Brepols Publishers348 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 2503520588ISBN-13: 9782503520582Koop dit boek tweedehands
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This study is a threefold investigation of understandings of embodiment - as displayed in the playhouses, courthouses, and anatomy theatres of London between 1540 and 1696. These dates mark the waxing and waning of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons' domination of the practice of dissection in London. In 1540 Henry VIII gave them his approval and encouragement but by 1696 Edward Ravenscroft's The Anatomist: Or the Sham Doctor staged their loss of power. This loss of power, the book contends, is sympt...
