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Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine - Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies Meredith Conti 1st edition
Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine - Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Meredith Conti
Playing Sick reconstructs how actors embodied three of the Victorian era’s most provocative illnesses: tuberculosis, drug addiction, and mental illness. In placing performances of illness within wider medicocultural contexts, Meredith Conti analyzes how such depictions confirmed or resisted salient constructions of diseases and the dise
196 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | December 18, 2020 |
| ISBN13 | 9780367733919 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 196 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 430 g |
| Language | English |