Fashioning Femininity And English Renaissance Drama
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Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama
Author | : Karen Newman |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 1991-08-13 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780226577098 |
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By examining representations of women on stage and in the many printed materials aimed at them, Karen Newman shows how female subjectivity—both the construction of the gendered subject and the ideology of women's subjection to men—was fashioned in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Her emphasis is not on "women" so much as on the category of "femininity" as deployed in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Through the critical lens of poststructuralism, Newman reads anatomies, conduct and domesticity handbooks, sermons, homilies, ballads, and court cases to delineate the ideologies of femininity they represented and produced. Arguing that drama, as spectacle, provides a peculiarly useful locus for analyzing the management of femininity, Newman considers the culture of early modern London to reveal how female subjectivity was fashioned and staged in the plays of Shakespeare, Jonson, and others.
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Author | : J. Leeds Barroll |
Publsiher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1995-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0838635709 |
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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing essays and studies as well as book reviews of the many significant books and essays dealing with the cultural history of medieval and early modern England as expressed by and realized in its drama exclusive of Shakespeare.
Music and Gender in English Renaissance Drama
Author | : Katrine K. Wong |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2013-05-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781136169694 |
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This book offers a survey of how female and male characters in English Renaissance theatre participated and interacted in musical activities, both inside and outside the contemporary societal decorum. Wong’s analysis broadens our understanding of the general theatrical representation of music, or musical dramaturgy, and complicates the current discussion of musical portrayal and construction of gender during this period. Wong discusses dramaturgical meanings of music and its association with gender, love, and erotomania in Renaissance plays. The negotiation between the dichotomous qualities of the heavenly and the demonic finds extensive application in recent studies of music in early modern English plays. However, while ideological dualities identified in music in traditional Renaissance thinking may seem unequivocal, various musical representations of characters and situations in early modern drama would prove otherwise. Wong, building upon the conventional model of binarism, explores how playwrights created their musical characters and scenarios according to the received cultural use and perception of music, and, at the same time, experimented with the multivalent meanings and significance embodied in theatrical music.
The Expense of Spirit
Author | : Mary Beth Rose |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781501723247 |
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A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage, Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and transforming them.
Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture
Author | : M. Burnett |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 1997-10-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230380141 |
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Drawing upon archival material as well as the drama, popular verse and pamphlets, this book reads representations of masters and servants in relation to key Renaissance preoccupations. Apprentices, journeymen, male domestic servants, maidservants and stewards, Burnett argues, were deployed in literary texts to address questions about the exercise of power, social change and the threat of economic upheaval. In this way, writers were instrumental in creating servant 'cultures', and spaces within which forms of political resistance could be realized.
Renaissance Drama
Author | : Sandra Clark |
Publsiher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2007-11-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780745633107 |
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This work provides a comprehensive overview of one of the richest periods of theatre history - the drama of early modern England.
Sex and Satiric Tragedy in Early Modern England
Author | : Gabriel A. Rieger |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781351900942 |
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Drawing upon recent scholarship in Renaissance studies regarding notions of the body, political, physical and social, this study examines how the satiric tragedians of the English Renaissance employ the languages of sex - including sexual slander, titillation, insinuation and obscenity - in the service of satiric aggression. There is a close association between the genre of satire and sexually descriptive language in the period, author Gabriel Rieger argues, particularly in the ways in which both the genre and the languages embody systems of oppositions. In exploring the various purposes which sexually descriptive language serves for the satiric tragedian, Rieger reviews a broad range of texts, ancient, Renaissance, and contemporary, by satiric tragedians, moralists, medical writers and critics, paying particular attention to the works of William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton and John Webster
York Notes Companions Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
Author | : Hugh Mackay |
Publsiher | : Pearson UK |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2014-08-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781292003924 |
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