Shakespeare Among The Courtesans

Author : Duncan Salkeld
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317056676

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Shakespeare Among the Courtesans by Duncan Salkeld Pdf

Courtesans - women who achieve wealth, status, or power through sexual transgression - have played both a central and contradictory role in literature: they have been admired, celebrated, feared, and vilified. This study of the courtesan in Renaissance English drama focuses not only on the moral ambivalence of these women, but with special attention to Anglo-Italian relations, illuminates little known aspects of their lives. It traces the courtesan from a wry comedic character in the plays of Terence and Plautus to its literary exhaustion in the seventeenth-century dramatic works of Dekker, Marston, Webster, Middleton, Shirley and Brome. The author focuses especially on the presentation of the courtesan in the sixteenth century - dramas by Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Lyly view the courtesan as a symbol of social disease and decay, transforming classical conventions into English prejudices. Renaissance Anglo-Italian cultural and sexual relations are also investigated through comparisons of travel narratives, original source materials, and analysis of Aretino's representations of celebrated Italian courtesans. Amid these fascinating tales of aspiration, desire and despair lingers the intriguing question of who was the 'dark lady' of Shakespeare's sonnets.

Author : S. P. Cerasano
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838644720

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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 27 by S. P. Cerasano Pdf

An international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642. This issue includes nine new articles and reviews of three books.

Author : Bill Barclay,David Lindley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107139336

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Shakespeare, Music and Performance by Bill Barclay,David Lindley Pdf

This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.

Author : Valerie Traub
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780191019722

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment by Valerie Traub Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 42 of the most important scholars and writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on the methods of historicism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and posthumanism, a team of international experts discuss Shakespeare's life, contemporary editing practices, and performance of his plays on stage, on screen, and in the classroom. This theoretically sophisticated yet elegantly written Handbook includes an editor's Introduction that provides a comprehensive overview of current debates.

Author : James T. Henke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351848381

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Courtesans and Cuckolds by James T. Henke Pdf

This title, first published in 1979, is a glossary of the bawdy vocabulary that was used in Renaissance Drama. One of the primary functions of this gloss of literary bawdy is to interpret imaginative uses of the language rather than simply record the generally accepted uses and meanings, with its principal task to make the dialogue of the plays more intelligible to the reader. With examples of bawdy language used in the works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and John Webster amongst many others, this title will be of great interest to students of literature and performance studies.

Author : Bernadette Andrea
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487512804

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The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture by Bernadette Andrea Pdf

Bernadette Andrea’s groundbreaking study recovers and reinterprets the lives of women from the Islamic world who travelled, with varying degrees of volition, as slaves, captives, or trailing wives to Scotland and England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Andrea’s thorough and insightful analysis of historical documents, visual records, and literary works focuses on five extraordinary women: Elen More and Lucy Negro, both from Islamic West Africa; Ipolita the Tartarian, a girl acquired from Islamic Central Asia; Teresa Sampsonia, a Circassian from the Safavid Empire; and Mariam Khanim, an Armenian from the Mughal Empire. By analysing these women’s lives and their impact on the literary and cultural life of proto-colonial England, Andrea reveals that they are simultaneously significant constituents of the emerging Anglo-centric discourse of empire and cultural agents in their own right. The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture advances a methodology based on microhistory, cross-cultural feminist studies, and postcolonial approaches to the early modern period.

Author : Diana E. Henderson
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838644768

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Shakespeare Studies, vol. 43 by Diana E. Henderson Pdf

Author : Pamela Allen Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198867838

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The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage by Pamela Allen Brown Pdf

The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage traces the transnational connections between Shakespeare's all-male stage and the first female stars in the West. The book is the first to use Italian and English plays and other sources to explore this relationship, focusing on the gifted actress whoradically altered female roles and expanded the horizons of drama just as the English were building their first paying theaters. By the time Shakespeare began to write plays, women had been acting professionally in Italian troupes for two decades, traveling across the Continent and acting in allgenres, including tragicomedy and tragedy. Some women became the first truly international stars, winning royal and noble patrons and literary admirers beyond Italy, with repeat tours in France and Spain.Elizabeth and her court caught wind of the Italians' success, and soon troupes with actresses came to London to perform. Through contacts direct and indirect, English professionals grew keenly aware of the mimetic revolution wrought by the skilled diva, who expanded the innamorata and made the typemore engaging, outspoken, and autonomous. Some English writers pushed back, treating the actress as a whorish threat to the all-male stage, which had long minimized female roles. Others saw a vital new model full of promise. Faced with rising demand for Italian-style plays, Lyly, Marlowe, Kyd, andShakespeare used Italian models from scripted and improvised drama to turn out stellar female parts in the mode of the actress, altering them in significant ways while continuing to use boys to play them. Writers seized on the comici's materials and methods to piece together pastoral, comic, andtragicomic plays from mobile theatergrams - plot elements, roles, stories, speeches, and star scenes, such as cross-dressing, the mad scene, and the sung lament. Shakespeare and his peers gave new prominence to female characters, marked their passions as un-English, and devised plots that figuredthem as self-aware agents, not counters traded between men. Playing up the skills and charisma of the boy player, they produced stunning roles charged with the diva's prodigious theatricality and alien glamour. Rightly perceived, the diva's celebrity and her acclaimed skills posed a radicalchallenge that pushed English playwrights to break with the past in enormously generative and provocative ways.

Author : Katherine West Scheil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108416696

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Imagining Shakespeare's Wife by Katherine West Scheil Pdf

Examines representations of Anne Hathaway from the eighteenth century to contemporary portrayals in theatre, biographies and novels.

Author : Akiko Kusunoki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137558930

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Gender and Representations of the Female Subject in Early Modern England by Akiko Kusunoki Pdf

This book examines the interactions between social assumptions about womanhood and women's actual voices represented in plays and writings by authors of both genders in Jacobean England, placing the special emphasis on Lady Mary Wroth.

Author : Stephanie Hunter Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134812790

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Sex Work and Female Self-Empowerment by Stephanie Hunter Jones Pdf

Prior research has tended to mirror popular representations of the female sex worker as a morally flawed individual and a victim of circumstances beyond her control. Sex Work and Female Self-Empowerment presents a fresh perspective on "the world’s oldest profession" by considering the relationship between sex work and female self-empowerment from a variety of disciplinary and practical perspectives and presenting new data derived from the author’s study of six self-employed indoor female sex workers (IFSWs). Informed by the author’s training in clinical psychology and human sexuality studies and her more than fifteen years of involvement in the sex work profession, this book extends beyond social stereotyping and stigmatization and presents a more balanced view of the identities and aspirations of sex workers in contemporary society.

Author : Carole Levin,Anna Riehl Bertolet,Jo Eldridge Carney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 9781315440712

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A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen by Carole Levin,Anna Riehl Bertolet,Jo Eldridge Carney Pdf

From the exemplary to the notorious to the obscure, this comprehensive and innovative encyclopedia showcases the worthy women of early modern England. Poets, princesses, or pirates, the women of power and agency found in these pages are indeed worth knowing, and this volume will introduce many female figures to even the most established scholars in early modern studies. Rather than using the conventional alphabetical format of the standard biographical encyclopedia, this volume is divided into categories of women. Since many women will fit in more than one category, each woman is placed in the category that best exemplifies her life, and is cross referenced in other appropriate sections. This structure makes the book an interesting read for seasoned scholars of early modern women, while students need not already be familiar with these subjects in order to benefit from the text. Another unusual feature of this reference work is that each entry begins with some incident from the woman’s life that is particularly exciting or significant. Some entries are very brief while others are extensive. Each includes a source listing. The book is well illustrated and liberally sprinkled with quotations of the time either by or about the women in the text.

Author : Jill Burke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781639365913

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How to Be a Renaissance Woman by Jill Burke Pdf

An alternative history of the Renaissance—as seen through the emerging literature of beauty tips—focusing on the actresses, authors, and courtesans who rebelled against the misogyny of their era. Beauty, make-up, art, power: How to Be a Renaissance Woman presents an alternative history of this fascinating period as told by the women behind the paintings, providing a window into their often overlooked or silenced lives. Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century? As the Renaissance visual world became populated by female nudes from the likes of Michelangelo and Titian, a vibrant literary scene of beauty tips emerged, fueling debates about cosmetics and adornment. Telling the stories of courtesans, artists, actresses, and writers rebelling against the strictures of their time, when burgeoning colonialism gave rise to increasingly sinister evaluations of bodies and skin color, this book puts beauty culture into the frame. How to Be a Renaissance Woman will take readers from bustling Italian market squares, the places where the poorest women and immigrant communities influenced cosmetic products and practices, to the highest echelons of Renaissance society, where beauty could be a powerful weapon in securing strategic marriages and family alliances. It will investigate how skin-whitening practices shifted in step with the emerging sub-Saharan African slave trade, how fads for fattening and thinning diets came and went, and how hairstyles and fashion could be a tool for dissent and rebellion—then as now. This surprising and illuminating narrative will make you question your ideas about your own body, and ask: Why are women often so critical of their appearance? What do we stand to lose, but also to gain, from beauty culture? What is the relationship between looks and power?

Author : Gordon Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 1650 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780485113938

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A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature by Gordon Williams Pdf

Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden.

Author : Theresa D. Kemp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9798765110829

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Daily Life of Women in Shakespeare's England by Theresa D. Kemp Pdf

Delve into the often-overlooked lives and legacies of everyday women in Tudor and Stuart England. Owing to their privilege and social stature, much is known about the elite women of 16th- and 17th-century England. Historians know far less, however, about the everyday women from the middle and lower classes from the 1550s to 1650 who left behind only scattered bits and pieces of their lives. Born into a narrow class and gender hierarchy that placed women second to men in almost all regards, women from the poor and middling ranks had limited social and economic opportunities beyond what men and the church afforded them. Yet, as Theresa D. Kemp shows in this addition to the Daily Life through History series, many of these women, most of them illiterate by modern standards, found creative ways to assert agency and push back against social norms. In an era when William Shakespeare debuted his plays at the Globe Theatre in London, everyday English women were active in religious movements, wrote literature, and went to court to protest abuse at home. Ultimately, a close examination of the lives of these women reveals how instrumental they were in shaping English society during a transformative and dynamic period of British history.