Shakespeare's Body Language: Shaming Gestures and Gender Politics on the Renaissance Stage

ISBN-13: 9781350228146 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 272 str.

UK) Thomas Miranda Fay (Independent scholar

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Acknowledgements Note on texts List of illustrations Introduction: Embodying shame 1. Thumb-biting: Performing Toxic Masculinity in Romeo and Juliet 2. Figging: Spanish Anxieties and Ancient Grudges in Pistol’s Henriad 3. Spitting at Richard: Taming the Beast in Richard III 4. Spitting at Shylock: Shameful Conversion in The Merchant of Venice 5. Horning: Fragile Masculinity in Othello 6. Hand-washing: Female Shame in Macbeth 7. Kneeling: Passive Aggression in Coriolanus 8. Stillness: Female Constancy in The Winter’s Tale Epilogue Bibliography Index