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

• Introduction: Performances, regulations, and negotiations of the Renaissance body : legal and social perspectives / Sidia Fiorato -- (Disciplining) monstrous Renaissance bodies : staging the witch / Beate Neumaier -- " ... Languished ..., and then died" : courtroom drama and the bodies of the victims in Thomas Pott's The wonderful discoverie of witches (1612) / Mariangela Tempera -- Constructing alterity : race, gender, and the body in Shakespeare's Othello / Heinz Antor -- Staged and staging bodies as legal and medical sites in Volpone / Roxanne Barbara Doerr -- Representing the body of law in early modern England / Paul Rauffield -- The image of power : Shakespeare's Lord Chief Justice / Ian Ward -- With teeth and nails : the embodied servitude of Étienne de la Boétie / Riccardo Baldissone -- The funeral oration over Caesar's body : techniques of mass communication / Daniela Carpi -- Motionless bodies : Shakespeare's Songs for sleep and death / Raffaele Cutolo -- Katechontic Elizabeth : the physical repository of sovereignty through law, literature and iconography / Cristina Costantini -- Anna of Denmark and the performance of the Queen Consort's sovereignty / Sidia Fiorato -- The body politic, female transgression and punishment in Jacobean tragedy / Aspasia Velissariou.

• "In the Renaissance period the body emerges as the repository of social and cultural forces and a privileged metaphor for political practices and legal codification. Due to its ambivalent expressive force, it represents the seat and the means for the performance of normative identity and at the same time of alterity. The essays of the collection address the manifold articulations of this topic, demonstrating how the inscription of the body within the discursive spheres of gender identity, sexuality, law, and politics align its materiality with discourses whose effects are themselves material. The aesthetic and performative dimension of law inform the debates on the juridical constitution of authority, as well as its reflection on the formation and the moulding of individual subjectivity. Moreover, the inherently theatrical elements of the law find an analogy in the popular theatre, where juridical practices are represented, challenged, occasionally subverted or created. The works analyzed in the volume, in their ample spectre of topics and contexts aim at demonstrating how in the Renaissance period the body was the privileged focus of the social, legal and cultural imagination." 

Ämnesord

Människokroppen i litteraturen  (sao)

Juridik och litteratur  (sao)

Renässanslitteratur  (sao)

Renässansen  (sao)

Europeisk dramatik  (sao)

Human body in literature.  (LCSH)

Law and literature.  (LCSH)

European drama  -- Renaissance, 1450-1600. (LCSH)

European literature  -- Renaissance, 1450-1600. (LCSH)

Law and literature  (LCSH)

European drama  (LCSH)

Renaissance  (LCSH)

Body, Human, in literature  (LCSH)

Genre

Electronic books. 

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809.933561 (DDC)