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Representing the Plague in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Rebecca Totaro
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-13 - Publisher: Routledge

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This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative repr
Plague Writing in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 309
Authors: Ernest B. Gilman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-01 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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During the seventeenth century, England was beset by three epidemics of the bubonic plague, each outbreak claiming between a quarter and a third of the populati
Persecution, Plague, and Fire
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Ellen MacKay
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The theatre of early modern England was a disastrous affair. What we tend to remember of the Shakespearean stage and its history are landmark moments of dissolu
The Literary Culture of Plague in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Kathleen Miller
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-06 - Publisher: Springer

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This book is about the literary culture that emerged during and in the aftermath of the Great Plague of London (1665). Textual transmission impacted upon and si
The Plague in Print
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Rebecca Totaro
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-05 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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In The Plague in Print, Rebecca Totaro takes the reader into the world of plague-riddled Elizabethan England, documenting the development of distinct subgenres