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Playing Sick - Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine (Paperback)
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Playing Sick - Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
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Few life occurrences shaped individual and collective identities
within Victorian-era society as critically as witnessing or
suffering from illness. The prevalence of illness narratives within
late nineteenth-century popular culture was made manifest on the
period's British and American stages, where theatrical embodiments
of illness were indisputable staples of actors' repertoires.
Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian
Medicine reconstructs how actors embodied three of the era's most
provocative illnesses: tuberculosis, drug addiction, and mental
illness. In placing performances of illness within wider
medicocultural contexts, Meredith Conti analyzes how such
depictions confirmed or resisted salient constructions of diseases
and the diseased. Conti's case studies, which range from Eleonora
Duse's portrayal of the consumptive courtesan Marguerite Gautier to
Henry Irving's performance of senile dementia in King Lear, help to
illuminate the interdependence of medical science and theatre in
constructing nineteenth-century illness narratives. Through
reconstructing these performances, Conti isolates from the period's
acting practices a lexicon of embodied illness: a flexible set of
physical and vocal techniques that performers employed to
theatricalize the sick body. In an age when medical science
encouraged a gradual decentering of the patient from their own
diagnosis and treatment, late nineteenth-century performances of
illness symbolically restored the sick to positions of visibility
and consequence.
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