Performing the Renaissance body : essays on drama, law, and representation / edited by Sidia Fiorato and John Drakakis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fiorato, Sidia, editor.

Drakakis, John, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Law & literature ; volume 11.

Law & literature ; volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body in literature.

Law and literature.

European drama--Renaissance, 1450-1600.

European drama.

European drama--Renaissance.

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600.

European literature.

European literature--Renaissance.

Physical Description:

ix, 299 pages : music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2016.

Summary:

The volume analyzes the concept of the "body" in the Renaissance period and its articulations and interpretations both in the legal field and the theatre. The body emerges as a site of regulation, shaped by social and political ideologies and specific networks of power, as well as a site of resistance to the codification of individual identity and the medium for its re-assertion in strict connection to the concept of the juridical persona. The series: Law & Literature, The interdisciplinary series Law & Literature systematically examines correlations between literature and the law. The studies presented in this series analyze the complex interrelations between two cultural spheres that have not only contributed to the basis of Western culture and society but also share a common focus on texts. Bringing together contributions by jurists, historians of law, legal philosophers, and specialists in literary and cultural studies, this series reflects a rapidly growing area of inter- and transdisciplinary research in Europe as well as in the United States. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Trying "Other" Bodies: The Witch, the Black and the Old

(Disciplining) Monstrous Renaissance Bodies: Staging the Witch / Beate Neumeier Neumeier, Beate 29

"...Languished..., and then died": Courtroom Drama and the Bodies of the Victims in Thomas Pott's The Wonderfutl Discoverie of Witches (1612) / Mariangela Tempera Tempera, Mariangela 61

Constructing Alterity: Race, Gender, and the Body in Shakespeare's Othello / Heinz Antor Antor, Heinz 73

Staged and Staging Bodies as Legal and Medical sites in Volpone / Roxanne Barbara Doerr Doerr, Roxanne Barbara 107

II Codification of the Body Politic and Common Law Jurisprudence

Representing the Body of Law in Early Modern England / Paul Raffield Raffield, Paul 135

The Image of Power: Shakespeare's Lord Chief Justice / Ian Ward Ward, Ian 145

With Teeth and Nails: The Embodied Inservitude of Étienne de La Boétie / Riccardo Baldissone Baldissone, Riccardo 157

III Liminal Bodies: The Life/Death Edge on Stage and in the Body Politic

The Funeral Oration over Caesar's Body: Techniques of Mass Communication / Daniela Carpi Carpi, Daniela 183

Motionless Bodies: Shakespeare's Songs for Sleep and Death / Raffaele Cutolo Cutolo, Raffaele 207

IV Staging the Queenly Body: The Performance of a Female Body Politic

Katechontic Elizabeth: The Physical Repository of Sovereignty through Law, Literature and Iconography / Cristina Costantini Costantini, Cristina 229

Anna of Denmark and the Performance of the Queen Consort's Sovereignty / Sidia Fiorato Fiorato, Sidia 247

The Body Politic, Female Transgression and Punishment in Jacobean Tragedy / Aspasia Velissariou Velissariou, Aspasia 273.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9783110462593

3110462591

OCLC:

949848685

Publisher Number:

9783110462593