Title
- Cambridge Studies In Renaissance Literature And Culture ; 30
Attribution
Celia R. DaileaderPublication Details
BookCambridge University Press1998Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR658.W6 D35 1998 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Celia Daileader explores the paradoxes of eroticism in early modern English drama, where women and their bodies (represented by boy actors) were materially absent and yet symbolically central. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Shakespeare, William, — 1564-1616 — Characters — Women
- Middleton, Thomas, — d. 1627 — Characters — Women
- English drama — Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 — History and criticism
- Women and literature — England — History — 16th century
- Women and literature — England — History — 17th century
- Erotic literature, English — History and criticism
- English drama — 17th century — History and criticism
- Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature
- Body, Human, in literature
- Desire in literature
- Renaissance — England
- Sex in literature
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Contents
- 1. Entrances: sex, women, God
- 2. Offstage sex and female desire. I. Middleton: silence and sound. II. Shakespeare: balconies and beds
- 3. Body beneath / body beyond. I. Women in breeches: The Tamer Tamed. II. Breaching Ursula’s booth: exteriors, interiors, posteriors
- 4. (Off)Staging the sacred. I. Blood and alabaster: The Duchess of Malfi. II. Sex and the crucifix: The Lady’s Tragedy
- 5. Obscene and unseen. I. Middleton: naming of parts. II. Shakespeare: name of the father
- 6. Ejaculations and conclusions: toward an erotic theoretics
ISBN
- 0521623790
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