Sexuality and Politics in Renaissance Drama
| Author | : Carole Levin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
A comprehensive volume of essays covering the topics of sexuality and politics in Renaissance drama.
Sexuality And Politics In Renaissance Drama
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Erotic Politics
| Author | : Susan Zimmerman |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2005-08-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1134919840 |
Identifying the stage as a primary site for erotic display, these essays take eroticism in Renaissance culture as a paradigm for issues of sexuality and identity in early modern culture. Contributors examine how the Renaissance stage functioned as a decoder for erotic experience, both reinforcing and subverting expected sexual behaviour. They argue that the dynamics of theatrical eroticism served to deconstruct gender definitions, leaving conventional categories of sexuality blurred, confused - or absent. In seeking to reposition the conventions and subversions of gender and desire in terms of one another, these essays open up an attractive and distinctive perspective in cultural debate.
Erotic Politics
| Author | : Susan Zimmerman |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0415066476 |
Taking eroticism on the English Renaissance stage as a paradigm for issues of sexuality and identity, this collection of essays examines representations of eroticism in English Renaissance theatre showing how the dynamics of theatical eroticism served to deconstruct gender definitions.
Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama
| Author | : Ania Loomba |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : |
Violent and recurrent confrontations between disorderly women and patriarchal power are a major feature of the tragedies of Shakespeare, Webster, and Middleton. In this study, Loomba interrelates racial and sexual differences to explore the construction of Renaissance authority and the politics of English studies, particularly Renaissance drama, in postcolonial education. These recurrent confrontations between women and the patriarchal status-quo are discussed in light of the historical and theoretical interweaving of race and gender. The book will be of interest to those studying the history of women and education as well as those interested in Renaissance drama.
The Expense of Spirit
| Author | : Mary Beth Rose |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2018-03-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1501723251 |
A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage, Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and transforming them.
Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage
| Author | : Viviana Comensoli |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : English drama |
| ISBN | : 9780252067303 |
Collection of essays which engages debates over gender in the English Renaissance theater--Cover.
Wanton Words
| Author | : Madhavi Menon |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2004-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780802088376 |
Menon introduces rhetoric into the largely medico-juridical realm of studies on Renaissance sexuality. In doing so, she suggests that rhetoric allows us to think through the erotics of language in ways that pay most attention to the frisson of English Renaissance drama.
Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy
| Author | : Jacqueline Murray |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2019-01-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1351008706 |
Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy explores the new directions being taken in the study of sex and gender in Italy from 1300 to 1700 and highlights the impact that recent scholarship has had in revealing innovative ways of approaching this subject. In this interdisciplinary volume, twelve scholars of history, literature, art history, and philosophy use a variety of both textual and visual sources to examine themes such as gender identities and dynamics, sexual transgression and sexual identities in leading Renaissance cities. It is divided into three sections, which work together to provide an overview of the influence of sex and gender in all aspects of Renaissance society from politics and religion to literature and art. Part I: Sex, Order, and Disorder deals with issues of law, religion, and violence in marital relationships; Part II: Sense and Sensuality in Sex and Gender considers gender in relation to the senses and emotions; and Part III: Visualizing Sexuality in Word and Image investigates gender, sexuality, and erotica in art and literature. Bringing to life this increasingly prominent area of historical study, Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy is ideal for students of Renaissance Italy and early modern gender and sexuality.
Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England
| Author | : John S. Garrison |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2015-11-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317548884 |
This volume brings together two vibrant areas of Renaissance studies today: memory and sexuality. The contributors show that not only Shakespeare but also a broad range of his contemporaries were deeply interested in how memory and sexuality interact. Are erotic experiences heightened or deflated by the presence of memory? Can a sexual act be commemorative? Can an act of memory be eroticized? How do forms of romantic desire underwrite forms of memory? To answer such questions, these authors examine drama, poetry, and prose from both major authors and lesser-studied figures in the canon of Renaissance literature. Alongside a number of insightful readings, they show that sonnets enact a sexual exchange of memory; that epics of nationhood cannot help but eroticize their subjects; that the act of sex in Renaissance tragedy too often depends upon violence of the past. Memory, these scholars propose, re-shapes the concerns of queer and sexuality studies – including the unhistorical, the experience of desire, and the limits of the body. So too does the erotic revise the dominant trends of memory studies, from the rhetoric of the medieval memory arts to the formation of collective pasts.
Renaissance Drama
| Author | : Sandra Clark |
| Publisher | : Polity |
| Total Pages | : 465 |
| Release | : 2007-11-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0745633102 |
This work provides a comprehensive overview of one of the richest periods of theatre history - the drama of early modern England.
