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Persecution, plague, and fire :fugit...

MacKay, Ellen.

Persecution, plague, and fire :fugitive histories of the stage in early modern England /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Persecution, plague, and fire :Ellen MacKay.
Reminder of title:	fugitive histories of the stage in early modern England /
Author:	MacKay, Ellen.
Published:	Chicago ;The University of Chicago Press,2011.
Description:	xiii, 242 p. ;24 cm.
Subject:	English dramaHistory and criticism.Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
ISBN:	9780226500195 (cloth : alk. paper)

Persecution, plague, and fire :fugitive histories of the stage in early modern England /
MacKay, Ellen.

Persecution, plague, and fire :fugitive histories of the stage in early modern England /Ellen MacKay. - Chicago ;The University of Chicago Press,2011. - xiii, 242 p. ;24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-227) and index.

Introduction: the theater as a loaded gun -- The hurt that comes of fooling -- Aeschylus's ballistic stage -- The ruins of Rome -- The theater as persecution -- Tragedy's guilty creatures -- England's conscience-catching theater -- Rome's fatal charades -- Tyrannical drama -- The dream of theatrical justice -- Hamlet's show trial -- The king's immunity -- The widow's foregone confession -- Gertrude's uncaught conscience -- Orestes redux -- The end of Rome -- The fall of the unified church -- The theater as infection -- The toxic middle age -- "The theater and the plague" -- "The sure disease of uncertaine causes" -- The life of performance -- Not quite nothing -- Stigmatical drama -- Some symptoms of the medieval stage -- "It is not words that shakes me thus" -- The plague in art -- "Look there, look there!" -- The apocalypse to come -- The theater as conflagration -- The eschatology of the Tudor stage -- The theater's propensity for burning -- Raising the "cry of Sodom" -- Wielding the crime of Sodom -- Sodomy's false origins -- Sodomitical drama -- The sought apocalypse -- Remembering Lot's wife -- The stage's hymeneal contract -- The impossible history of theater fires -- The mare mortuum's infinite stage -- Afterword: on the uncertainty of what comes after.

ISBN: 9780226500195 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2010031161Subjects--Topical Terms:

178984
English drama
--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600

LC Class. No.: PR646 / .M33 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 792.0942/09031

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