 | The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan 1500–1600 -- History and criticism; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Body Human in literature; Shame in literature; Men and women in early modern Europe experienced their bodies very differently from the ways in which contemporary men and women do. In this challenging and innovative book, Gail Kern Paster examines representations of the body in Elizabethan-Jacobean... Gail Kern Paster is Professor of English at The George Washington University. |
