Sex and Satiric Tragedy in Early Modern England: Penetrating Wit - Brossura

Rieger, Gabriel A.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1138245399 ISBN 13: 9781138245396

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2016

Riassunto

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

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L'autore:

Gabriel A. Rieger is an assistant professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Concord University in Athens, West Virginia, where he lives with his wife and daughter

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138245399
• ISBN 13: 9781138245396
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 158