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Author: Katharine Eisaman Maus
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1995-06
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780226511238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text explores the perceived discrepancy between outward appearance and inward disposition which, it argues, influenced the work of many English Renaissance dramatists and poets. The author examines various connections between religious, legal, sexual and theatrical ideas of inward truth.
Author: David M Bevington
Publisher: Humanities-Ebooks
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1847603041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Annette Drew-Bear
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780838752302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShe also shows that in Renaissance comedy, playwrights exploited the many bawdy meanings of fucus, or cosmetic paint, to dramatize that "theres knauery in dawbing.".
Author: Viviana Comensoli
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780252067303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollection of essays which engages debates over gender in the English Renaissance theater--Cover.
Author: Garrett A. Sullivan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-09-29
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1139446347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEngaging debates over the nature of subjectivity in early modern England, this fascinating and original study examines sixteenth- and seventeenth-century conceptions of memory and forgetting, and their importance to the drama and culture of the time. Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr discusses memory and forgetting as categories in terms of which a variety of behaviours - from seeking salvation to pursuing vengeance to succumbing to desire - are conceptualized. Drawing upon a range of literary and non-literary discourses, represented by treatises on the passions, sermons, anti-theatrical tracts, epic poems and more, Shakespeare, Marlowe and Webster stage 'self-recollection' and, more commonly, 'self-forgetting', the latter providing a powerful model for dramatic subjectivity. Focusing on works such as Macbeth, Hamlet, Dr Faustus and The Duchess of Malfi, Sullivan reveals memory and forgetting to be dynamic cultural forces central to early modern understandings of embodiment, selfhood and social practice.
Author: Lauren Robertson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-01-31
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1009225154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLauren Robertson shows how the commercial theater transformed early modernity's crisis of uncertainty into spectacular onstage display.
Author: Jennifer C. Vaught
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-09-23
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 150151315X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJennifer C. Vaught illustrates how architectural rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser provides a bridge between the human body and mind and the nonhuman world of stone and timber. The recurring figure of the body as a besieged castle in Shakespeare’s drama and Spenser’s allegory reveals that their works are mutually based on medieval architectural allegories exemplified by the morality play The Castle of Perseverance. Intertextual and analogous connections between the generically hybrid works of Shakespeare and Spenser demonstrate how they conceived of individuals not in isolation from the physical environment but in profound relation to it. This book approaches the interlacing of identity and place in terms of ecocriticism, posthumanism, cognitive theory, and Cicero’s art of memory. Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser examines figures of the permeable body as a fortified, yet vulnerable structure in Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, tragedies, romances, and Sonnets and in Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Complaints.
Author: Douglas A. Brooks
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1351908839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe relation between procreation and authorship, between reproduction and publication, has a long history - indeed, that relationship may well be the very foundation of history itself. The essays in this volume bring into focus a remarkably important and complex phase of this long history. In this volume, some of the most renowned scholars in the field persuasively demonstrate that during the early modern period, the awkward, incomplete transition from manuscript to print brought on by the invention of the printing press temporarily exposed and disturbed the epistemic foundations of English culture. As a result of this cultural upheaval, the discursive field of parenting was profoundly transformed. Through an examination of the literature of the period, this volume illuminates how many important conceptual systems related to gender, sexuality, human reproduction, legitimacy, maternity, kinship, paternity, dynasty, inheritance, and patriarchal authority came to be grounded in a range of anxieties and concerns directly linked to an emergent publishing industry and book trade. In exploring a wide spectrum of historical and cultural artifacts produced during the convergence of human and mechanical reproduction, of parenting and printing, these essays necessarily bring together two of the most vital critical paradigms available to scholars today: gender studies and the history of the book. Not only does this rare interdisciplinary coupling generate fresh and exciting insights into the literary and cultural production of the early modern period but it also greatly enriches the two critical paradigms themselves.
Author: Edward Pechter
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1587292971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the past twenty years or so, Othello has become the Shakespearean tragedy that speaks most powerfully to our contemporary concerns. Focusing on race and gender (and on class, ethnicity, sexuality, and nationality), the play talks about what audiences want to talk about. Yet at the same time, as refracted through Iago, it forces us to hear what we do not want to hear; like the characters in the play, we become trapped in our own prejudicial malice and guilt.
Author: Willemijn Ruberg
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9042032421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSexed Sentiments provides a gender perspective on the recent turn to affect in criticism. It presents new work by scholars from different disciplines working on gender and emotion, a field par excellence where an interdisciplinary focus is fruitful. This collection presents essays from disciplines like history, literary studies, psychology, sociology and queer studies, focusing on subjects varying from masculinity in the cult of sensibility to the role of empathy in forging feminist solidarities. The volume illuminates how new theoretical approaches to both gender and emotion may be productively applied to a variety of fields.
