...Focuses on depictions of proprioception Thomas Dekker’s c. 1611 play If This Be Not a Good Play The Devil is In It. Explains the ways in Dekker engages readers’ and audiences’ kinesic and kinaesthetic understanding. Contextualises the play in terms of early modern theories...

... of vitality – periods of stasis followed by an onrush of energy – linger in audiences’ minds more powerfully than the play’s words. bound body Castiliano character chastity devil and women docility Honorea character I T Grim the Collier of Croydon or The Devil and His Dame loosed body Musgrave...

...This chapter focuses on Thomas Paine as a ‘folk devil’, the ways in which stories and myths about him and his works were implicated in the tense politics of the 1790s. Two narratives, one involving a baker named John Atwood and the other a physician named Theodore Wilson, were deliberately designed...