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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2021

Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
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University of Oxford
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An audience follows a park ranger into the woods looking for wolves … A young Danish prince contemplates a skull in a dug-up grave … A wheelchair-bound blind man spars verbally with the carer who is about to leave him … A woman with a deformed spine is murdered by a fanatical doctor who wants to dissect her corpse … A bald, cancer-ridden woman recites the poetry of Donne as she lies dying … Two pairs of couples in Regency dress dance a waltz as the lights gradually fade …

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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