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Desire and dramatic form in early modern England /
This wide-ranging study investigates the intersections of erotic desire and dramatic form in the early modern period, considering to what extent disruptive desires can successfully challenge, change or undermine the structures in which they are embedded. Through close readings of texts by Marlowe, S...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Textual note
- Introduction: consummate play
- Part I "Come ... and play": Christopher Marlowe, beside the point
- Chapter 1 Genre, gender, and sexuality in "The Passionate Shepherd" and Tamburlaine
- Delights of the mind
- 8220;Vaunts substantial8221;
- Chapter 2 Submitting to history: Edward II
- Chapter 3 "True-loves blood": narrative and desire in Hero and Leander
- Chapter 4 "Thus with a kiss": a Shakespearean interlude
- Part II Desiring women in the seventeenth century
- Chapter 5 "How strangely does himself work to undo him": (male) sexuality in The Revenger's Tragedy
- Chapter 6 "My body bestow upon my women": the space of the feminine in The Duchess of Malfi
- Chapter 7 "I(t) could not choose but follow": erotic logic in The Changeling
- Chapter 8 "Old men's tales": legacies of the father in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
- Chapter 9 The passionate shepherdess: the case of Margaret Cavendish
- 8220;No plots, nor designs, nor subtil contrivances8221;
- Young virgins tales
- Afterword: for(e)play
- Notes
- INTRODUCTION: CONSUMMATE PLAY
- GENRE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY IN 8220;THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD8221; AND TAMBURLAINE
- SUBMITTING TO HISTORY: EDWARD II
- 8220;TRUE-LOVES BLOOD8221;: NARRATIVE AND DESIRE IN HERO AND LEANDER
- 8220;THUS WITH A KISS8221;: A SHAKESPEAREAN INTERLUDE
- 8220;HOW STRANGELY DOES HIMSELF WORK TO UNDO HIM8221;: (MALE) SEXUALITY IN THE REVENGERS TRAGEDY
- 8220;MY BODY BESTOW UPON MY WOMEN8221;: THE SPACE OF THE FEMININE IN THE DUCHESS OF MALFI
- 8220;I(T) COULD NOT CHOOSE BUT FOLLOW8221;: EROTIC LOGIC IN THE CHANGELING
- 8220;OLD MENS TALES8221;: LEGACIES OF THE FATHER IN TIS PITY SHES A WHORE
- THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERDESS: THE CASE OF MARGARET CAVENDISH
- AFTERWORD: FOR(E)PLAY
- Works cited
- Index.