Reformations of the Body

This project takes the human body and the bodily senses as joints that articulate new kinds of connections between church and theatre and overturns a longstanding notion about theatrical phenomenology in this period.

Auteur
Jennifer Waldron is an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Contenu

1. Dead Idols and Lively Images: A Genealogy of Protestant Iconoclasm 2. Sacrament and Theater: Shakespeare's Lawful Magic 3. Theatrical Authorship and Providential Bodies: The Case of Doctor Faustus 4. Revenge, Sacrifice, and Post-Reformation Theater: The Spanish Tragedy 5. Shakespeare and Revenge: The Anthropology of Sacrifice in Titus Andronicus and Othello 6. Virgin Martyrs and Sacrificial Sovereigns: Thomas Dekker's Politic Bodies 7. Epilogue:Iconoclastic Bodies and Literary Technique: Oldcastle to Milton