Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage
Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage
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USDCelia Daileader explores the paradoxes of eroticism in early modern English drama, where women and their bodies (represented by boy actors) were materially absent and yet symbolically central. Accounting for the significance of the space offstage, where most sexual acts take place, Daileader looks to the suppression of religious drama in England and the resulting secularization of the stage. She draws together questions about sexuality and the sacred, in the bodies--of Christ and of woman--banished from the early modern English stage.
- Exciting insights into early modern English drama, particularly on questions about what could and could not be shown on stage
- Draws significant analogies between eroticism and the sacred in early modern English drama
- Addresses and furthers debates about boy actors and the social construction of gender, with reference to a wide range of plays
Reviews & endorsements
"For collections supporting work at graduate and research levels." Choice
"The author is to be commended for the clarity and lucidity of her writing, even though she makes large use of Foucault and Derrida. This is the thirtieth volume in Cambrige studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, edited by Stephen Orgel, a new historicist and cultural studies series that has strinkingly original and impressive contributions." Shakeshare Bulletin
Product details
December 2006Paperback
9780521034678
212 pages
228 × 151 × 10 mm
0.271kg
8 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Entrances: sex, women, God
- 2. Offstage sex and female desire
- 3. Body beneath/body beyond
- 4. (Off)Staging the sacred
- 5. Obscene and unseen
- 6. Ejaculations and conclusions: toward an erotic theoretics
- Appendices
- Notes
- Index.
