Wanton words : rhetoric and sexuality in English Renaissance drama / Madhavi Menon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menon, Madhavi, author.

Contributor:

Russell, Norma (Norma Jean)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

Sex in literature.

English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Rhetoric.

English language.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

England.

Genre:

History.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (466 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Canada] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In Wanton Words, Madhavi Menon intimately and expertly couples classical and Renaissance handbooks of rhetoric with canonical Renaissance plays and demonstrates their shared propensity to speak about sex - often transgressive sex - in the same instance that they speak about the workings of language." "While other studies of rhetoric have confined their analyses to local questions of interpretive interest, Menon introduces rhetoric into the largely medico-juridical realm of studies on Renaissance sexuality. In doing so, she suggests that rhetoric allows us to think through the erotics of language in ways that pay most attention to the frisson of English Renaissance drama. Sustained deconstructive parsings of tropes - metaphor, metonymy, allegory, catachresis, and more - enables their wantonness to emerge in subjects usually considered unrelated to rhetoric: race in Othello, colonialism in The Tempest, tragedy in Romeo and Juliet, and cowardice in The Roaring Girl."--Jacket

Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreplay

1 Setting the Stage: Metaphor

2 Performance Anxiety: Metonymy, Richard II, The Roaring Girl

3 First Night: Metalepsis, Romeo and Juliet, All's Well that Ends Well

4 Cast in Order of Appearance: Catachresis, Othello, King John

5 Encore! Allegory, Volpone, The Tempest

After Words: Henry VIII and the Ends of History

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-281-99478-2

1-4426-5973-4

9786611994785

1-4426-8322-8

OCLC:

1013956622