Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage : Transcendence, Desire, and the Limits of the Visible (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature & Culture)

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Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage : Transcendence, Desire, and the Limits of the Visible (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature & Culture)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 194 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780521623797
  • DDC分類 822.3093538

基本説明

Explores the paradoxes of eroticism in early modern English drama, where women and their bodies were materially absent and yet symbolically central.

Full Description


In this 1998 book, Celia Daileader explores the paradoxes of eroticism on the stage in early modern England, where women and their bodies (represented by boy actors) were materially absent and yet symbolically central. Her starting point is the theoretical and theatrical problem of sexual acts that take place offstage, which is a paradigm for the limits of the visible in Renaissance theatre. The space that lies offstage becomes an imaginary realm, encompassing both spiritual and erotic transcendence. In accounting for its power, Daileader looks to the suppression of religious drama in England and the resulting secularization of the stage. Focusing on the link between absence and desire, and discussing a wide range of drama from Corpus Christi plays to Shakespeare, her argument draws together questions about sexuality and the sacred, in the bodies - of Christ and of woman - that are banished from the early modern English stage.

Table of Contents

        List of illustrations                      x  (1)
Acknowledgments                                    xi
  1  Entrances:  sex, women, God                   1  (22)
  2  Offstage sex and female desire                23 (28)
    I  Middleton:  silence and sound               25 (10)
    II  Shakespeare:  balconies and beds           35 (16)
  3  Body beneath / body beyond                    51 (28)
    I  Women in breeches:  The Tamer Tamed         53 (12)
    II  Breaching Ursula's booth:  exteriors,      65 (14)
    interiors, posteriors
  4  (Off)Staging the sacred                       79 (28)
    I  Blood and alabaster:  The Duchess of        81 (11)
    Malfi
    II  Sex and the crucifix:  The Lady's          92 (15)
    Tragedy
  5  Obscene and unseen                            107(25)
    I  Middleton:  naming of parts                 111(9)
    II  Shakespeare:  name of the father           120(12)
  6  Ejaculations and conclusions:  toward an      132(11)
  erotic theoretics
Appendix 1                                         143(12)
Appendix 2                                         155(4)
Notes                                              159(32)
Index                                              191