Re Defining Gender In Early Modern English Drama Power Sexualities And Ideologies In Text And Performance

Author : Laura Martínez-García,María José Álvarez-Faedo
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3034342527

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(Re)defining Gender in Early Modern English Drama; Power, Sexualities and Ideologies in Text and Performance by Laura Martínez-García,María José Álvarez-Faedo Pdf

The present volume studies the concept of theatricality in early modern English drama (1606-1705) through the analysis of an array of cultural products, including dramatic texts, dedications, autobiographies, adaptations and performative practices (on and off stage). Special attention is paid to the permeability of the boundaries between theatre and (social) life, which are viewed as mutually influencing spaces where normative gender can be reinforced, naturalised, subverted and/or contested. The contributors explore relations of power through the analysis of male and female sexualities as written and performed by both men and women, to determine to what extent the gendered power hierarchy is destabilised or legitimised.

Author : Natália Pikli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000431612

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Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture by Natália Pikli Pdf

This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 1580s and 1630s. Natália Pikli approaches this study with a thorough and interdisciplinary examination of hobby-horse references, with commentary on the polysemous uses of the word, offers an informative background to reconsider well-known texts by Shakespeare and others, and provides an overview on the workings of cultural memory regarding popular culture in early modern England. The book will appeal to those with interest in early modern drama and theatre, dramaturgy, popular culture, cultural memory, and iconography.

Author : Penny Richards,Jessica Munns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317875512

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Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe by Penny Richards,Jessica Munns Pdf

Surveying court life and urban life, warfare, religion, and peace, this book provides a comprehensive history of how gender was experienced in early modern Europe. Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe shows how definitions of sexuality and gender roles operated and more particularly, how such definitions--and the activities they generated and reflected--articulated concerns inside a given culture. This means that the volume embodies an interdisciplinary approach: literature as well as history, religious studies, economics, and gender studies form the basis of this cultural history of early modern Europe. There are new approaches to understanding famous figures, such as Elizabeth I, James VI and I and his wife Anna of Denmark; Francis I; St. Teresa of Avila. Other chapters investigate topics such as militarism and court culture, and wider groups, such as urban citizens and noble families. The collection also studies ways in which gender and sexual orientation were represented in literature, as well as examinations of the theoretical issues involved in studying history from the angle of gender.

Author : Will Fisher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521858519

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Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture by Will Fisher Pdf

Analyses the construction of gender through bodily elements and clothing in early modern England.

Author : Kate Aughterson,Ailsa Grant Ferguson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474289993

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Shakespeare and Gender by Kate Aughterson,Ailsa Grant Ferguson Pdf

Shakespeare and Gender guides students, educators, practitioners and researchers through the complexities of the representation of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare's work. Informed by contemporary and early modern debates and insights into gender and sexuality, including intersectionality, feminist geography, queer and performance studies and fourth-wave feminism, this book provides a lucid and lively discussion of how gender and sexual identity are debated, contested and displayed in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Using close textual analysis hand-in- hand with diverse contextual materials, the book offers an accessible and intelligent introduction to how gender debates are integral to the plays and poems, and why we continue to read and perform them with this in mind. Topics and themes discussed include gendering madness, paternity and the patriarchy, sexuality, anxious masculinity, maternal bodies, gender transgression, and kingship and the male body politic.

Author : Michelene Wandor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317606147

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Look Back in Gender (Routledge Revivals) by Michelene Wandor Pdf

In this challenging book, first published in 1987, Michelene Wandor looks at the best-known plays in the thirty years prior to publication, from Look Back in Anger onwards. Wandor investigates the representation of the family and different forms of sexuality in these plays and re-reviews them from a perspective that throws into sharp relief the function of gender as an important determinant of plot, setting and the portrayal of character. Juxtaposing the period before 1968, when statutory censorship was still in force, with the years following its abolition, Wandor scrutinises the key plays of, among others, Osborne, Pinter, Wesker, Arden, and Delaney. Each one is analysed in terms of its social context: the influence of World War II, the testing of gender roles, the development of the Welfare State and changes in family patterns, and the impact of feminist, Left-wing and gay politics. Throughout the period, two generations of playwrights and theatregoers transformed the theatre into a forum in which they could articulate and explore the interaction of their interpersonal relationships with the wider political sphere. These changes are explored in this title, which will allow readers to re-evaluate their view of post-war British drama.

Author : Judith Haber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107404312

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Desire and Dramatic Form in Early Modern England by Judith Haber Pdf

This wide-ranging study investigates the intersections of erotic desire and dramatic form in the early modern period, considering to what extent disruptive desires can successfully challenge, change or undermine the structures in which they are embedded. Through close readings of texts by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster, Middleton, Ford and Cavendish, Haber counters the long-standing New Historicist association of the aesthetic with the status quo, and argues for its subversive potential. Many of the chosen texts unsettle conventional notions of sexual and textual consummation. Others take a more conventional stance; yet by calling our attention to the intersection between traditional dramatic structure and the dominant ideologies of gender and sexuality, they make us question those ideologies even while submitting to them. The book will be of interest to those working in the fields of early modern literature and culture, drama, gender and sexuality studies, and literary theory.

Author : Theodora A. Jankowski
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0252062388

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Women in Power in the Early Modern Drama by Theodora A. Jankowski Pdf

Author : Claude J. Summers,Ted-Larry Pebworth
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826264084

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Fault Lines and Controversies in the Study of Seventeenth-century English Literature by Claude J. Summers,Ted-Larry Pebworth Pdf

Written by various experts in the field, this volume of thirteen original essays explores some of the most significant theoretical and practical fault lines and controversies in seventeenth-century English literature. The turn into the twenty-first century is an appropriate time to take stock of the state of the field, and, as part of that stocktaking, the need arises to assess both where literary study of the early modern period has been and where it might desirably go. Hence, many of the essays in this collection look both backward and forward. They chart the changes in the field over the past half century, while also looking forward to more change in the future.

Author : Mary Ellen Lamb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351913607

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Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts by Mary Ellen Lamb Pdf

Proposing a fresh approach to scholarship on the topic, this volume explores the cultural meanings, especially the gendered meanings, of material associated with oral traditions. The collection is divided into three sections. Part One investigates the evocations of the 'old nurse' as storyteller so prominent in early modern fictions. The essays in Part Two investigate women's fashioning of oral traditions to serve their own purposes. The third section disturbs the exclusive associations between the feminine and oral traditions to discover implications for masculinity, as well. Contributors explore the plays of Shakespeare and writings of Spenser, Sidney, Wroth and the Cavendishes, as well as works by less well known or even unknown authors. Framed by an introduction by Mary Ellen Lamb and an afterword by Pamela Allen Brown, these essays make several important interventions in scholarship in the field. They demonstrate the continuing cultural importance of an oral tradition of tales and ballads, even if sometimes circulated in manuscript and printed forms. Rather than in its mode of transmission, contributors posit that the continuing significance of this oral tradition lies instead in the mode of consumption (the immediacy of the interaction of the participants). Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts confirms the power of oral traditions to shape and also to unsettle concepts of the masculine as well as of the feminine. This collection usefully complicates any easy assumptions about associations of oral traditions with gender.

Author : James M. Bromley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192638069

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Clothing and Queer Style in Early Modern English Drama by James M. Bromley Pdf

This book examines early modern drama's depiction of non-standard forms of masculinity grounded in superficiality, inauthenticity, affectation, and the display of the extravagantly clothed body. Practices of extravagant dress destabilized distinctions between able-bodied and disabled, human and non-human, and the past and present, distinctions that structure normative ways of thinking about sexuality. In city comedies by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, Thomas Middleton, and Thomas Dekker, extravagantly dressed male characters imagine alternatives to the prevailing modes of subjectivity, sociability, and eroticism in early modern London. While these characters are situated in hostile narrative and historical contexts, this book draws on recent work on disability, materiality, and queer temporality to rethink their relationship to those contexts in order to access the world-making possibilities of early modern queer style. In their rich representations of life in London around the turn of the seventeenth century, these plays not only were, but also remain, uniquely sensitive to the intersection of sexuality, urbanization, and material culture. The attachments and pleasures of early modern sartorial extravagance they depict can estrange us from the epistemologies that narrow current thinking about sexuality's relationship to authenticity, pedagogy, interiority, and privacy.

Author : Michelene Wandor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134773114

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Post-war British Drama: Looking Back in Gender by Michelene Wandor Pdf

In this extensively revised and updated edition of her classic work, Look Back in Gender, Michelene Wandor confirms the symbiotic relationship between drama and gender in a provocative look at key, representative British plays from the last fifty years. Repositioning the text at the heart of hteatre studies, Wandor surveys plays by Ayckbourn, Beckett, Churchill, Daniels, Friel, Hare, Kane, Osborne, Pinter, Ravenhill, Wertenbaker, Wesker and others. Her nuanced argument, central to any analysis of contemporary drama, discusses: *the imperative of gender in the playwright's imagination *the function of gender as a major determinant of the text's structural and narrative drives *the impact of socialism and feminism on post-war British drama, and the relevance of feminist dynamics in drama *differences in the representation of the fmaily, sexuality and the mother, before and after 1968 *the impact of the slogan that the 'personal is political' on contemporary form and content.

Author : D. Wootton,G. Holderness
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230277489

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Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500-1700 by D. Wootton,G. Holderness Pdf

Explores dramatic, narrative and polemical versions of the 'taming of the shrew' story, from the Middle Ages to the Restoration, in light of recent historical work on the position of early modern women in society. Its essays address shrew narratives as an extended cultural dialogue debating issues of gender and sexual politics.

Author : Simone Chess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317360858

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Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature by Simone Chess Pdf

This volume examines and theorizes the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF crossdressing episodes to take a fuller place alongside instances of female-to-male crossdressing and boy actors’ crossdressing, which have long held the spotlight in early modern gender studies. The author argues that MTF crossdressing episodes are especially rich sources for socially-oriented readings of queer gender—that crossdressers’ genders are constructed and represented in relation to romantic partners, communities, and broader social structures like marriage, economy, and sexuality. Further, she argues that these relational representations show that the crossdresser and his/her allies often benefit financially, socially, and erotically from his/her queer gender presentation, a corrective to the dominant idea that queer gender has always been associated with shame, containment, and correction. By attending to these relational and beneficial representations of MTF crossdressers in early modern literature, the volume helps to make a larger space for queer, genderqueer, male-bodied and queer-feminine representations in our conversations about early modern gender and sexuality.

Author : Mario DiGangi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997-09-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521587018

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The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama by Mario DiGangi Pdf

DiGangi analyses the relation between homoeroticism and social power in a range of literary and historical texts from the 1580s to the 1620s, drawing on insights from materialist, queer and feminist theory to show the centrality of homoerotic practices.