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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-08-29 - Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 265
Pages: 265
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-02-09 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either overlooked, marginalized as footnotes or ge
Language: en
Pages: 222
Pages: 222
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Draws upon both medical and literary research to show the preoccupation of Shakespeare and his contemporaries with drugs and poisons in their dramas.
Language: en
Pages: 259
Pages: 259
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-24 - Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England considers the ways sixteenth- and seventeenth-century fears of poisoning prompt new models for understanding the worl
Language: en
Pages: 278
Pages: 278
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-13 - Publisher: Routledge
Magical Transformations on the Early Modern Stage furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English