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Bloody Signifiers – A Body for a Word on the Renaissance Stage

SKU: PMRT.GEN.1344.07294

$198.85

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Number of Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 3705201344
Publication Date: 1997
Condition: New

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Explores diseased and mortified bodies in English Renaissance plays usually critically dismissed as gratuitous, decadent, or sensationalistic, and considers the signifying capability of these bodies within the plays, to account for the plays’ ‘horrific’ qualities. Offers psychoanalytic reading of the madness, ghosts, death and violence. Other Renaissance Studies Books 2011 – Role of Venetian Renaissance Painting in John Ruskins Utopian Theories. A Sociopolitical History of Art 1991 – Aristotelians of Renaissance Italy 1991 – Sexuality and Politics in Renaissance Drama

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