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Lelia's kiss : imagining gender, sex, and marriage in Italian Renaissance comedy / Laura Giannetti.
LIBRA PQ4149 .G53 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giannetti, Laura.
- Series:
- Toronto Italian studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italian drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.
- Italian drama (Comedy).
- Italian drama--To 1700--History and criticism.
- Italian drama.
- Sex role in literature.
- Gender identity in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Marriage in literature.
- Masculinity in literature.
- Femininity in literature.
- Theater--Italy--History.
- Theater.
- Italy.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 333 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- 1 Women in Men's Clothing: Female Cross-Dressing Plays and the Construction of Feminine Identity 24
- 2 Woman with Woman: 'Ma che potr ̉succedermi se io donna amo una Donna?' 76
- 3 Men in Women's Clothing: Male Cross-Dressing Plays and the Construction of Masculine Identity 113
- 4 Pedants, Candlemakers, and Boys: Sodomy and Comedy 153
- 5 The Playing of Matrimony 193.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802099518
- 0802099513
- OCLC:
- 428868529
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