Umfang:
1 online resource (158 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780754698791
Serie:
Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama Ser.
Inhalt:
Drawing upon recent scholarship in Renaissance studies regarding notions of the body, political, physical and social, this study examines how the satiric tragedians of the English Renaissance employ the languages of sex-including sexual slander, titillation, insinuation and obscenity - in the service of satiric aggression.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Sex, Stoicism, and Satyre: The Roots of Satiric Tragedy -- 1 "You Go Not Till I Set You Up A Glass": The Death of Elizabeth and the Languages of Gender -- 2 "Deep Ruts and Foul Sloughs": Sexually Descriptive Languageand the Narrative of Disease -- 3 "I'll Have My Will": Frustrated Desire and Commercial Culture -- 4 "I Am Worth No Worse A Place": Service, Subjugation, and Satire -- Conclusion: Erotic Aggression and Satiric Tragedy -- Appendix -- Works Cited -- Index.
Anmerkung:
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781409400295
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781409400295
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=476419
