The volume analyses the concept of the 'body' in the Renaissance period and its articulations and interpretations both in the legal field and the theatre. The body emerges as a site of regulation, shaped by social and political ideologies and...
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The volume analyses the concept of the 'body' in the Renaissance period and its articulations and interpretations both in the legal field and the theatre. The body emerges as a site of regulation, shaped by social and political ideologies and specific networks of power, as well as a site of resistance to the codification of individual identity and the medium for its re-assertion in strict connection to the concept of the juridical persona. John Drakakis,University of Stirling, Scotland, UK; Sidia Fiorato, Università degli Studi di Verona, Verona, Italy. Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction. Performances, Regulations and Negotiations of the Renaissance Body. Legal and Social Perspectives -- I. Trying "Other" Bodies: The Witch, the Black and the Old -- (Disciplining) Monstrous Renaissance Bodies: Staging the Witch -- "…Languished…, and then died": Courtroom Drama and the Bodies of the Victims in Thomas Pott's The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches (1612) -- Constructing Alterity: Race, Gender, and the Body in Shakespeare's Othello
