Sexual Types : Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley /
DiGangi, Mario
Sexual Types : Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley / Mario DiGangi. - 1 online resource (304 p.) : 30 illus.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Deformation of Character -- Part 1. Sexual Types and Necessary Classifications -- Chapter 1. Keeping Company -- Chapter 2. Fulfilling Venus -- Part 2. Sexual Types and Social Discriminations -- Chapter 3. Mincing Manners -- Chapter 4. Calling Whore -- Part 3. Sexual Types and Intermediary Functions -- Chapter 5. Making Common -- Chapter 6. Making Monsters -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
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Sexual types on the early modern stage are at once strange and familiar, associated with a range of "unnatural" or "monstrous" sexual and gender practices, yet familiar because readily identifiable as types: recognizable figures of literary imagination and social fantasy. From the many found in early modern culture, Mario DiGangi here focuses on six types that reveal in particularly compelling ways, both individually and collectively, how sexual transgressions were understood to intersect with social, gender, economic, and political transgressions.Building on feminist and queer scholarship, Sexual Types demonstrates how the sodomite, the tribade (a woman-loving woman), the narcissistic courtier, the citizen wife, the bawd, and the court favorite function as sites of ideological contradiction in dramatic texts. On the one hand, these sexual types are vilified and disciplined for violating social and sexual norms; on the other hand, they can take the form of dynamic, resourceful characters who expose the limitations of the categories that attempt to define and contain them. In bringing sexuality and character studies into conjunction with one another, Sexual Types provides illuminating new readings of familiar plays, such as Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale, and of lesser-known plays by Fletcher, Middleton, and Shirley.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812243611 9780812205152
10.9783/9780812205152 doi
Characters and characteristics in literature.
English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
English drama 500-1600 --Early modern and Elizabethan--History and criticism.
English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.
English drama--History and criticism.--17th century
English drama--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
Sex in literature.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
Typology (Psychology) in literature.
Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Cultural Studies. Gender Studies. LC. Literature. Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Women's Studies.
822/.309353
Sexual Types : Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley / Mario DiGangi. - 1 online resource (304 p.) : 30 illus.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Deformation of Character -- Part 1. Sexual Types and Necessary Classifications -- Chapter 1. Keeping Company -- Chapter 2. Fulfilling Venus -- Part 2. Sexual Types and Social Discriminations -- Chapter 3. Mincing Manners -- Chapter 4. Calling Whore -- Part 3. Sexual Types and Intermediary Functions -- Chapter 5. Making Common -- Chapter 6. Making Monsters -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Sexual types on the early modern stage are at once strange and familiar, associated with a range of "unnatural" or "monstrous" sexual and gender practices, yet familiar because readily identifiable as types: recognizable figures of literary imagination and social fantasy. From the many found in early modern culture, Mario DiGangi here focuses on six types that reveal in particularly compelling ways, both individually and collectively, how sexual transgressions were understood to intersect with social, gender, economic, and political transgressions.Building on feminist and queer scholarship, Sexual Types demonstrates how the sodomite, the tribade (a woman-loving woman), the narcissistic courtier, the citizen wife, the bawd, and the court favorite function as sites of ideological contradiction in dramatic texts. On the one hand, these sexual types are vilified and disciplined for violating social and sexual norms; on the other hand, they can take the form of dynamic, resourceful characters who expose the limitations of the categories that attempt to define and contain them. In bringing sexuality and character studies into conjunction with one another, Sexual Types provides illuminating new readings of familiar plays, such as Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale, and of lesser-known plays by Fletcher, Middleton, and Shirley.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812243611 9780812205152
10.9783/9780812205152 doi
Characters and characteristics in literature.
English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
English drama 500-1600 --Early modern and Elizabethan--History and criticism.
English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.
English drama--History and criticism.--17th century
English drama--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
Sex in literature.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
Typology (Psychology) in literature.
Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Cultural Studies. Gender Studies. LC. Literature. Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Women's Studies.
822/.309353