Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage

Darryl Chalk is a Senior Lecturer in Theater at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.Mary Floyd-Wilson is the Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

• 1. Introduction: Beyond the Plague - Darryl Chalk.- 2. Comedy, the Senses, and Social Contagion in Plays Confused in Five Actions and The Comedy of Errors - Jennie Votava.- 3. "A Deal of Stinking Breath": The Smell of Contagion in the Early Modern Playhouse - Amy Kenny.- 4. "Go Touch his Life": Contagious Malice and the Power of Touch in The Witch of Edmonton - Bronwyn Johnston.- 5. Kisses and Contagion in Troilus and Cressida - Jennifer Forsyth.- 6. "Search this Ulcer Soundly": Sex as Contagion in The Changeling and Othello - Emily Weissbourd.- 7. "Amend thy Face": Contagion and Disgust in the Henriad - Ariane M. Balizet.- 8. Bad Dancing and Contagious Embarrassment in More Dissemblers Besides Women - Jennifer Panek.- 9. Contagious Pity: Cultural Differences and the Language of Contagion in Titus Andronicus - Jennifer Feather.- 10. The Hungry Meme and Political Contagion in Coriolanus - Clifford Werier.- 11. Hamlet's Story/Stories of Hamlet: Shakespeare's Theatre, the Plague, and Contagious Storytelling - J. F. Bernard.- 12. "Nature Naturized": Plague, Contagious Atheism, and The Alchemist - John Estabillo.- 12. Embedded in Shakespeare's "Fair Verona" - Rebecca Totaro.- 13. Afterword - Mary Floyd-Wilson.