Constructing Monsters in Shakespeare’s Drama and Early Modern Culture

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This text argues for the crucial place of the monster in the early modern imagination. Mark Thornton Burnett traces the metaphorical significance of monstrous forms across a range of early modern exhibition spaces - fairground displays, cabinets of curiosity and court entertainments - to contend that the monster finds its most intriguing manifestation in the investments and practices of contemporary theatre. The study’s fresh readings of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson make a powerful case for the drama’s contribution to debates about the extraordinary body .