{"product_id":"care-and-contagion-in-shakespeares-changing-world-9781350425071","title":"Care and Contagion in Shakespeare's Changing World","description":"\u003cp\u003eCircuits of disease correspond to previously unconsidered practices of caregiving in early modern English drama in this new volume by Darryl Chalk and Rebecca Totaro. They explore how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries responded to and intersected with local and international ideas of communal care, health management, quarantine, embodiment, and theatricality. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe role of the spectators who found themselves represented in such themes of caregiving in times of crisis finds new meaning in Chalk and Totaro's framing. Foregrounded by pioneering archival research, chapters provide new insights into several Shakespeare plays performed on stages in London and at the court of King James I, as well as several plays by his contemporaries including Webster, Dekker, and Middleton. Contributors explore plague and privilege in \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e, servants and caregiving in \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e, women and herbal medicine in \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, astrology in \u003ci\u003eThe Duchess of Malfi\u003c\/i\u003e, and the humour that attaches itself to illness in \u003ci\u003eThe Roaring Girl\u003c\/i\u003e. These case studies expand our understanding of the caregiving that connected people across place and time as powerfully as the lived experience of disease did.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDarryl Chalk \u003c\/b\u003eis Theatre Convenor and Senior Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland, Australia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Totaro\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Dean and Professor of English, College of Arts \u0026amp; Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Arden Shakespeare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51966966104338,"sku":"9781350425071","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1d5a4b18-6a8d-4a0d-9c11-b6b02426eca0.jpg?v=1768916856","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/care-and-contagion-in-shakespeares-changing-world-9781350425071","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}