Drama and resistance : bodies, goods, and theatricality in late medieval England /
Claire Sponsler explores the intertwined histories of bodily subjectivity, commodity culture, and theatricality in late medieval England. In a fascinating consideration of popular drama in the period from 1350 to 1520, she argues that many types of performances during this time represented cultural...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press
1997.
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| Series: | Medieval cultures ;
v. 10. |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttj1c |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; Introduction: Bodily Transactions: Performance, Identity, and Commodification; 1. Fashioned Subjectivity and the Regulation of Difference; 2. Counterfeit in Their Array: Cross-Dressing in Robin Hood Performances; 3. Conduct Books and Good Governance; 4. Mischievous Governance: The Unruly Bodies of Morality Plays; 5. Devoted Bodies: Books of Hours and the Self-Consuming Subject; 6. Violated Bodies: The Spectacle of Suffering in Corpus Christi Pageants; Afterword: Domination, Resistance, and the Consumer; Notes; Index.