TY - BOOK AU - DiGangi,Mario TI - Sexual Types: Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley SN - 9780812243611 U1 - 822/.309353 23 PY - 2011///] CY - Philadelphia : PB - University of Pennsylvania Press, KW - Characters and characteristics in literature KW - English drama KW - 17th century KW - History and criticism KW - Early modern and Elizabethan KW - 500-1600 KW - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 KW - Sex in literature KW - Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature KW - Typology (Psychology) in literature KW - Literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - Cultural Studies KW - Gender Studies KW - LC KW - Medieval and Renaissance Studies KW - Women's Studies N1 - 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; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205152 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812205152 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812205152/original ER -