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Flaunting : style and the subversive male body in Renaissance England /

In the early modern period, the theatrical stage offered one of the most popular forms of entertainment and aesthetic pleasure. It also fulfilled an important cultural function by displaying modes of behaviour and dramatizing social interaction within a community. Flaunting argues that the theatre i...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bailey, Amanda, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2007.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 'Style is the man': defiant aesthetics and the culture of male youth
  • Monstrous manner: clothing law and the early modern theatre
  • Livery and its discontents in 'The Taming of the Shrew'
  • The Italian vice and bad taste in Edward II
  • Plotting style in Ben Jonson's London.