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The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England
The Body Embarrassed Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England
Author: Gail Kern Paster
Men and women in early modern Europe experienced their bodies very differently from the ways in which contemporary men and women do. In this challenging and innovative book, Gail Kern Paster examines representations of the body in Elizabethan-Jacobean drama in the light of humoral medical theory, tracing the connections between the history of th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801480607
ISBN-10: 0801480604
Publication Date: 5/1993
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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