Author: Paster, Gail Kern
Title: The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (1993). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiii, 285 pp. Minor rubbing. Some light cover soil. VG. ¶ Contents: Civilizing the Humoral Body; Leaky Vessels: The Incontinent Women of City Comedy; Laudable Blood: Bleeding, Difference, & Humoral Embarrassment; Covering His Ass: The Scatological Imperatives of Comedy; Complying with the Dug: Narratives of Birth & the Reproduction of Shame; Quarrelling with the Dug: Or I am Glad You Did Not Nurse Him.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, English Literature, Drama, Social History, Human Body, Early Modern, England, ,