Staging Disgust : Rape, Shame, and Performance in Shakespeare and Middleton / Jennifer Panek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Panek, Jennifer, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in Shakespeare performance

Elements in Shakespeare Performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aversion in literature.

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

English drama.

Shame in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (95 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This Element turns to the stage to ask a simple question about gender and affect: what causes the shame of the early modern rape victim? Beneath honour codes and problematic assumptions about consent, the answer lies in affect, disgust. It explores both the textual "performance" of affect, how literary language works to evoke emotions and the ways disgust can work in theatrical performance. Here Shakespeare's poem The Rape of Lucrece is the classic paradigm of sexual pollution and shame, where disgust's irrational logic of contamination leaves the raped wife in a permanent state of uncleanness that spreads from body to soul. Staging Disgust offers alternatives to this depressing trajectory: Middleton's Women Beware Women and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus perform disgust with a difference, deploying the audience's revulsion to challenge the assumption that a raped woman should "naturally" feel intolerable shame"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction: Literature, Affect, and Performance

Early Modern Sexual Pollution

The Rape of Lucrece

Women Beware Women

Titus Andronicus

Coda

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Feb 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781009379830

1009379836

9781009379847

1009379844

9781009379816

100937981X