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Sexual Types : Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley / Mario DiGangi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) : 30 illusContent type:
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  • 9780812243611
  • 9780812205152
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822/.309353 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)