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Playing Sick (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

Meredith Conti

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Description:Few life occurrences shaped individual and collective identities within Victorian society as critically as witnessing or suffering from illness, and the cultural construct of illness was an indisputable staple on the late-nineteenth-century stage.Playing Sick analyzes those popular performances to determine how they confirmed or counteracted salient medical, cultural, and individualized expressions of illness. Meredith Conti uses characters from Camille to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Jekyll to explore representations of consumption, drug addiction and mental disorders to suggest a lexicon of performed illness and contagious diseases. Each of these types of performance is associated with specific identity categories - contagion with nationality, addiction with class, and mental illness with gender roles - to identify the ways in which the theatre of this period helped to balance the authority of medical science by helping to re-centralize the connections between the individual and their illness.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Playing Sick (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies). To get started finding Playing Sick (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Few life occurrences shaped individual and collective identities within Victorian society as critically as witnessing or suffering from illness, and the cultural construct of illness was an indisputable staple on the late-nineteenth-century stage.Playing Sick analyzes those popular performances to determine how they confirmed or counteracted salient medical, cultural, and individualized expressions of illness. Meredith Conti uses characters from Camille to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Jekyll to explore representations of consumption, drug addiction and mental disorders to suggest a lexicon of performed illness and contagious diseases. Each of these types of performance is associated with specific identity categories - contagion with nationality, addiction with class, and mental illness with gender roles - to identify the ways in which the theatre of this period helped to balance the authority of medical science by helping to re-centralize the connections between the individual and their illness.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Playing Sick (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies). To get started finding Playing Sick (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Playing Sick (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

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