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The performance of pleasure in English Renaissance drama / by Ronald Huebert.
Van Pelt Library PR658.P57 H84 2003
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR658.P57 H84 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huebert, Ronald.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
- Pleasure in literature.
- Aesthetics, Modern--16th century.
- Aesthetics, Modern.
- Aesthetics, Modern--17th century.
- Renaissance--England.
- Renaissance.
- England.
- Aesthetics, British.
- Sex in literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 218 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
- Summary:
- Offering new and theatrically informed readings of plays by a broad range of Renaissance dramatists--including Marlowe, Jonson, Marston, Webster, Middleton and Ford--this new book addresses the question of pleasure: both erotic pleasure as represented on stage and aesthetic pleasure as experienced by readers and spectators. Some of the issues raised (the distribution of pleasure by gender, the notion of consent) intersect with feminist reinterpretations of Renaissance culture.
- Contents:
- 1 Interpreting Pleasure 1
- 2 Tobacco and Boys / Christopher Marlowe 23
- 3 A Shrew Yet Honest / Ben Jonson 46
- 4 The Adverse Body / John Marston 69
- 5 One Wench between Them / Thomas Heywood, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher 86
- 6 Impossible Desire / John Webster 107
- 7 An Art That Has No Name / Thomas Middleton 129
- 8 Endless Dreams / John Ford 156.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-211) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0333995570
- OCLC:
- 51817528
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