Desire and dramatic form in early modern England / Judith Haber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haber, Judith Deborah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English drama.

Sex in literature.

Desire in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Desire & Dramatic Form in Early Modern England

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This wide-ranging study investigates the intersections of erotic desire and dramatic form in the early modern period, considering to what extent disruptive desires can successfully challenge, change or undermine the structures in which they are embedded. Through close readings of texts by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster, Middleton, Ford and Cavendish, Haber counters the long-standing New Historicist association of the aesthetic with the status quo, and argues for its subversive potential. Many of the chosen texts unsettle conventional notions of sexual and textual consummation. Others take a more conventional stance; yet by calling our attention to the intersection between traditional dramatic structure and the dominant ideologies of gender and sexuality, they make us question those ideologies even while submitting to them. The book will be of interest to those working in the fields of early modern literature and culture, drama, gender and sexuality studies, and literary theory.

Contents:

Genre, gender, and sexuality in "The passionate shepherd and Tamburlaine

Submitting to history: Edward II

"True-loves blood": narrative and desire in Hero and Leander

"Thus with a kiss": a Shakespearean interlude

"How strangely does himself work to undo him": (male) sexuality in The revenger's tragedy

"My body bestow upon my women": the space of the feminine in The duchess of Malfi

"I(t) could not choose but follow": erotic logic in The changeling

"Old men's tales": legacies of the father in 'Tis pity she's a whore

The passionate shepherdess: the case of Margaret Cavendish.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-190) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-19178-5

1-107-40431-2

1-282-10396-2

9786612103964

0-511-57664-1

0-511-51801-3

0-511-51559-6

0-511-51447-6

0-511-51687-8

OCLC:

609833156