Civic and medical worlds in early modern England : performing barbery and surgery / Eleanor Decamp.

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

xii, 277 pages ; 23 cm.

Machine generated contents note: Name -- Introduction: Naming of Parts -- Prop -- 1. S̀ettinge up a shoppe': Inventories and Props -- Performance -- 2. Lend me thy basin, apron and razor': Disguise, (Mis)Appropriation, and Play -- Sign -- 3. Semiotics of Barber-Surgery in Shakespeare: Chair and Basin -- Sound -- 4. Ànd pleasant harmonie shall sound in your eares': Ballads, Music and Groans, Snip-snaps, Fiddlesticks, Ear-picks, and Wax -- Voice -- 5. Àn unnecessary flood of words'?

Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-266) and index.