Sensory experience and the metropolis on the Jacobean stage (1603-1625) / Hristomir A. Stanev.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author:	Stanev, Hristomir A.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
Series:	Studies in performance and early modern drama.
Subjects:	English drama > 17th century > History and criticism. Senses and sensation in literature. Literature and society > England > History > 17th century. English drama Literature and society Senses and sensation in literature England 1600-1699 Criticism, interpretation, etc. History

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction : enter the sensory metropolis
2. The city and its theaters : a Jacobean sensory perspective
3. Brothel gustatory competence, suburban bulk, and the city devoured in Bartholomew Fair and The hones whore, part one
4. "Is't not a strange savour?" : ubran built environment and the odors of restraint in The puritan and Westward ho
5. Visible madness and the invisible discernment of charity in The honest whore, part one and The pilgrim
6. Invasive city noise, alienating talk, and the troubles of hearing Bartholomew Fair and Epicene
7. "A plague's the purge to cleanse a city" : harmful touch, rotten breath, and infectious urban strife in Coriolanus and Timon of Athens.

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