Textual Intercourse

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-521-58920-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 396 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

Textual Intercourse proposes that the language and practice of writing plays in early modern England was inextricably linked to languages and practices of eroticism, sexuality and reproduction. Jeffrey Masten reads a range of early modern materials - burial records, contemporary biographical anecdotes and theatrical records, essays, conduct books and poems; the printed apparatus of published plays, and the plays themselves - to illustrate the ways in which writing for the theatre shifted from a model of homoerotic collaboration toward one of singular authorship on a patriarchal-absolutist model. Plays and collections of plays by Shakespeare, Shakespeare and Fletcher, Beaumont and Fletcher, Margaret Cavendish, and others, are considered. Textual Intercourse illustrate the ways in which methods attuned to sexuality and gender can illuminate more traditional questions of authorship, attribution, textual editing and intellectual property.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Masten, Jeffrey

Mastern, Jeffrey

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Seeing double: collaboration and the interpretation of Renaissance drama; 2. Between gentlemen: homoeroticism, collaboration, and the discourse of friendship; 3. Representing authority: patriarchalism, absolutism, and the author on stage; 4. Reproducing works: dramatic quartos and folios in the seventeenth century; 5. Mistris Corrivall: Margaret Cavendish's dramatic production; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Masten, Jeffrey
Jeffrey Masten is Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University, where he teaches in the English department and Gender Studies Program.