Peg Katritzky’s 2014 articles “A wonderfull monster borne in Germany’: hairy girls in medieval and early modern German book, court and performance culture” (in German Life and Letters) and “Literary anthropologies and Pedro González, the “Wild Man” of Tenerife” (in Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire) are outputs of her current Wellcome Trust funded research project. Her other 2014 publications include articles on Shakespeare (Shakespeare’s “portrait of a blinking idiot”: transnational reflections, in Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater; “A plague o’ these pickle herring”: from London drinkers to European stage clown, in Ninth World Shakespeare Congress: Renaissance Shakespeare: Shakespeare Renaissances), Samuel Butler (Historical and literary contexts for the Skimmington: impotence and Samuel Butler’s "Hudibras", in Cuckoldry, Impotence and Adultery in Europe, 15th–17th Century) and theatre iconography (Images of the commedia dell'arte, in The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell'Arte).
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