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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 75
T2  - Review of English Studies
SP  - 562-77
ID  - bbbo13
T1  - "'Imitate the Motions of Those that are Infected': Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost in Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure"
AU  - Taylor, Caroline
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2026
LA  - English
AB  - Proposes that both Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost and Margaret Cavendish’s Convent of Pleasure respond to virulent plague outbreaks which immediately preceded their depictions of single-sex cloistering and also engage with contemporaneous debates around efficacy of household quarantine as public health response. Argues Shakespeare’s play offers defense of public theater in face of quarantine restrictions that shut down the public playhouses, and argues Cavendish’s work repurposes Shakespeare’s portrayal of infection risk in public theatre for closet drama environment.
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