The theatre of the body: Staging death and embodying life in early-modern London.

"...The book takes as its specific focus seventeenth-century London, in a significant study encompassing the period from the incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons (1540) to the staging of Edward Ravenscroft’s adaptation of a French farce as The Anatomist: or, The Sham Doctor (1696). Cregan is concerned with ‘how practices and subjectivities of modernity began to take hold within and across three fields of expertise’ , three concretely interconnected arenas in London:  the dramatic theatre of the playhouses, the anatomy theatre of the Barber-Surgeons, and the exercise of law in the city’s court houses" (http://www.northernrenaissance.org/kate-cregan-the-theatre-of-the-body-staging-death-and-embodying-life-in-early-modern-london-brepols-2009/, accessed 2-2018).