Sensory Experience and the Metropolis on the Jacobean Stage (1603–1625) (Paperback)

Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction: Enter the Sensory Metropolis; Chapter 2 The City and Its Theaters: A Jacobean Sensory Perspective; Chapter 3 Brothel Gustatory Competence, Suburban Bulk, and the City Devoured in; Bartholomew Fair; and; The Honest Whore; , Part One; Chapter 4 “Is’t not a strange savour?”: Urban Built Environment and the Odors of Restraint in; The Puritan; and; Westward Ho; Chapter 5 Visible Madness and the Invisible Discernment of Charity in; The Honest Whore; , Part One and; The Pilgrim; Chapter 6 Invasive City Noise, Alienating Talk, and the Troubles of Hearing in; Bartholomew Fair; and; Epicene; Chapter 7 “A Plague’s the Purge to Cleanse a City”: Harmful Touch, Rotten Breath, and Infectious Urban Strife in; Coriolanus; and; Timon of Athens; Epilogue;