Horror on the Early Modern Stage

Sheila Coursey is Assistant Professor of English, Saint Louis University, USA. Hannah Korell is Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, USA.

• Introduction: Nightmares on Thames StreetSheila Coursey (Saint Louis University, USA) & Hannah Korell (University of Wisconsin-Platteville, USA)Part 1: Playing with Tragedy1. Aesthetic and Affective Registers of Horror in Doctor Faustus and MacbethAni Govjian (University of Pennsylvania, USA)2. Insidious Sights: Jump Scares and Suburban Horror in Early Modern Domestic TragedySheila Coursey(Saint Louis University, USA)3. So Bad They’re Good: 1980s Teen Slasher Films and Early Modern Revenge TragediesM.G. Aune (Pennsylvania Western University, USA) & Shawn ReesePart 2: Mind v. Body: Sites of Horror4. Hamlet’s “Eternal Blazon” as Contagious HorrorKhristian S. Smith (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)5. Putting Lips on a Skull and Skin on a Ghost: The Problem with Re-fleshing Corpses in HamletChelsea Lee (University of California, Irvine, USA)6. Boxes of Wormseed and Paper Prisons: Bodies, Horror, and Imprisonment in The Duchess of MalfiCharlotte Thurston (CUNY Graduate Center, USA)7. “Thou art a dead thing”: Disquieting the Jacobean Body with Pragmatic Aesthetics James Rizzi (Canisius University, USA)Part 3: Transtemporal Approaches8. Blood Fe(a)sts—A Case Study in Body Horror: William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and The Vienna Action GroupAmanda Di Ponio (Huron University College, USA)9. Midsummer/Midsommar Nightmares: Exploitation and Ecohorror in Shakespeare and AsterJessica Walker (University of North Georgia, USA)10. New Flesh and Fairy Flesh: Body Horror in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Early Films of David CronenbergVictoria McMahon (Independent Scholar)Epilogue: “A Herd Confused:” Folk Horror and the Allegorical Functions of the Early ModernGregory Colón Semenza (University of Connecticut, USA)BibliographyIndex