Poison on the Early Modern English Stage

Introduction
Bill Angus and Lisa Hopkins

Part I: Sources of poison

1 'Balms and gums and heavy cheers': Shakespeare's poison gardens
Lisa Hopkins

2 Shakespeare and the snakehandlers: venom, vermin and the circulation of eco-social energy in Renaissance drama
Todd Andrew Borlik

3 Shakespeare's 'baleful mistletoe'
Susan C. Staub

4 Poisoning and poisonous Black bodies: Egyptian magic on the early modern stage
Nour El Gazzaz

Part II: Poisoners

5 'Spit thy poison': the rhetoric of poison in Marston's and Webster's Italianate drama
Yan Brailowsky

6 Poisonous intent, or how to get away with attempted murder on the early modern stage
Anthony Archdeacon

7 'Let this deadly draught purge clean my Soul from sin': poisons and remedies in Margaret Cavendish's drama
Delilah Bermudez Brataas

8 Poxy doxies and poison damsels: venereal infection and the myth of the venomous woman in early modern literature
Dee Anna Phares

Part III: Victims

9 'Thou didst eat my lips': swallowing passion in William Davenant's The Tragedy of Albovine
Kibrina Davey

10 'The leperous distilment': authority, informers and the poisoned ear
Bill Angus

11 Playing with poison: murder, proof and confession in early modern revenge
Jessica Apolloni

12 'No healthsome air breathes in': spiritual poison in Romeo and Juliet
Khristian S. Smith

13 'Death's counterfeit': the art of undying and the Machiavels in The Jew of Malta and Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany
Subarna Mondal


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