Playing Dirty : Sexuality and Waste in Early Modern Comedy /

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Playing Dirty is full of dirty jokes. Arguing that the early modern excremental body is in many ways an erotic body, Will Stockton with humor and dry wit reads psychoanalytic theory through early modern comedies, claiming that it is helpful, rather than inimical, to the project of historicizing the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Stockton, Will
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sodomy in literature.
Sex in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Human body in literature.
Feces in literature.
English literature > Early modern.
English drama (Comedy)
Anus (Psychology)
HISTORY > Medieval.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Psychanalyse et litterature.
Analite.
Feces dans la litterature.
Sodomie dans la litterature.
Corps humain dans la litterature.
Sexualite dans la litterature.
Comedie anglaise > Histoire et critique.
English drama (Comedy) > History and criticism.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The wandering anus: Ben Jonson, John Harington, and humanist homopoetics
  • Shakespeare's ass: The merry wives of Windsor and the butt of the joke
  • Happy endings: healing sick desires in All's well that ends well
  • Happy endings II: The unfortunate traveller, the "frenzy of the visible," and the comedy of anti-semitism
  • The pardoner's dirty breeches: cynicism and kynicism in The Canterbury tales.

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