Sex and Satiric Tragedy in Early Modern England : Penetrating Wit.
Title:
Sex and Satiric Tragedy in Early Modern England : Penetrating Wit.
Author:
Rieger, Gabriel A.
ISBN:
9780754698791
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (158 pages)
Series:
Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Sex, Stoicism, and Satyre: The Roots of Satiric Tragedy -- 1 "You Go Not Till I Set You Up A Glass": The Death of Elizabeth and the Languages of Gender -- 2 "Deep Ruts and Foul Sloughs": Sexually Descriptive Languageand the Narrative of Disease -- 3 "I'll Have My Will": Frustrated Desire and Commercial Culture -- 4 "I Am Worth No Worse A Place": Service, Subjugation, and Satire -- Conclusion: Erotic Aggression and Satiric Tragedy -- Appendix -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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