Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, authorship, and sexualities in Renaissance drama - Rilegato

Masten, Jeffrey

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ISBN 10: 0521572606 ISBN 13: 9780521572606

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Riassunto

Textual Intercourse proposes that the language and practice of writing plays in early modern England was inextricably linked to languages and practices of eroticism, sexuality and reproduction. Jeffrey Masten reads a range of early modern materials - burial records, contemporary biographical anecdotes and theatrical records, essays, conduct books and poems; the printed apparatus of published plays, and the plays themselves - to illustrate the ways in which writing for the theatre shifted from a model of homoerotic collaboration toward one of singular authorship on a patriarchal-absolutist model. Plays and collections of plays by Shakespeare, Shakespeare and Fletcher, Beaumont and Fletcher, Margaret Cavendish, and others, are considered. Textual Intercourse illustrate the ways in which methods attuned to sexuality and gender can illuminate more traditional questions of authorship, attribution, textual editing and intellectual property.

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Recensione:

'This is an absorbing book, which bristles with provocative insights ... Of necessity, therefore, and often brilliantly, masten ranges widely in his study over the terrains of queer studies, the history of sexuality and ditorial controversy ... Textual Intercourse thus constitutes a landmark volume ... This important work will have a notable impact on Renaissance scholarship and editorial practice alike.' Mark Thornton Burnett, Theatre Research International

Descrizione del libro:

Textual Intercourse brings together literary criticism, theatre history, the study of printed books and gender studies to offer new readings of plays by Shakespeare and others. Jeffrey Masten shows how the writing of Renaissance drama was conceptualised (on stage and in print) in the languages of sex, gender and eroticism.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0521572606
• ISBN 13: 9780521572606
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240