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Article: Staging Anatomies: Dissection and Spectacle in Early Stuart Drama.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2006
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Hilary M. Nunn. Staging Anatomies: Dissection and Spectacle in Early Stuart Drama.
Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. x + 232 pp. index. illus. bibl. $89.95. ISBN: 0-7546-3399-3.
The title of this book is slightly misleading. Nunn examines a variety of forms of violence against the body, and she situates that violence within a variety of contexts, including architecture, theater history, theology, and political theory, as well as medicine; dissection is sometimes peripheral to her analysis. When Nunn does focus on anatomy, often what she offers is a suggestive analogy rather than a clear and ...