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Constructing Monsters in Shakespeare's Drama and Early Modern Culture

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  • © 2002

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  1. Mark Thornton Burnett
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Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Mark Thornton Burnett
    Pages 1-7

  3. Mapping ‘Monsters’

    • Mark Thornton Burnett
    Pages 8-32

  4. ‘The strangest men that ever Nature made’: Manufacturing ‘Monsters’ in Tamburlaine the Great

    • Mark Thornton Burnett
    Pages 33-64

  5. ‘Monsters’ and ‘Molas’: Body Politics in Richard III

    • Mark Thornton Burnett
    Pages 65-94

  6. ‘As it is credibly thought’: Conceiving ‘Monsters’ in Othello

    • Mark Thornton Burnett
    Pages 95-124

  7. ‘Were I in England now’: Localizing ‘Monsters’ in The Tempest

    • Mark Thornton Burnett
    Pages 125-153

  8. ‘If there be never a servant- monster’: Translating ‘Monsters’ in Bartholomew Fair

    • Mark Thornton Burnett
    Pages 154-177

  9. Epilogue

    • Mark Thornton Burnett
    Pages 178-182

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 183-262
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About this book

Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture argues for the crucial place of the 'monster' in the early modern imagination. Burnett traces the metaphorical significance of 'monstrous' forms across a range of early modern exhibition spaces - fairground displays, 'cabinets of curiosity' and court entertainments - to contend that the 'monster' finds its most intriguing manifestation in the investments and practices of contemporary theatre. The study's new readings of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson make a powerful case for the drama's contribution to debates about the 'extraordinary body'.

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'An informative and articulate contribution to the subject of monster studies and a fascinating development in the exploration of Renaissance drama... this book [is] a rarity and a wonder in itself.'

- Kevin Stagg, Gothic Studies

About the author

MARK THORNTON BURNETT is a Reader in English at Queen's University, Belfast. He is author of Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience, editor of Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays and Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems.

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