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Sex and Satiric Tragedy in Early Modern England

Author: Gabriel A. Rieger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1351900943

Drawing upon recent scholarship in Renaissance studies regarding notions of the body, political, physical and social, this study examines how the satiric tragedians of the English Renaissance employ the languages of sex - including sexual slander, titillation, insinuation and obscenity - in the service of satiric aggression. There is a close association between the genre of satire and sexually descriptive language in the period, author Gabriel Rieger argues, particularly in the ways in which both the genre and the languages embody systems of oppositions. In exploring the various purposes which sexually descriptive language serves for the satiric tragedian, Rieger reviews a broad range of texts, ancient, Renaissance, and contemporary, by satiric tragedians, moralists, medical writers and critics, paying particular attention to the works of William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton and John Webster

Representing Masculinity in Early Modern English Satire, 1590–1603

Author: Per Sivefors

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-02-14

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 100004789X

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Engaging with Elizabethan understandings of masculinity, this book examines representations of manhood during the short-lived vogue for verse satire in the 1590s, by poets like John Donne, John Marston, Everard Guilpin and Joseph Hall. While criticism has often used categorical adjectives like "angry" and "Juvenalian" to describe these satires, this book argues that they engage with early modern ideas of manhood in a conflicted and contradictory way that is frequently at odds with patriarchal norms even when they seem to defend them. The book examines the satires from a series of contexts of masculinity such as husbandry and early modern understandings of age, self-control and violence, and suggests that the images of manhood represented in the satires often exist in tension with early modern standards of manhood. Beyond the specific case studies, while satire has often been assumed to be a "male" genre or mode, this is the first study to engage more in depth with the question of how satire is invested with ideas and practices of masculinity.

Early Modern Intertextuality

Author: Sarah Carter

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 3030689085

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This book is an exploration of the viability of applying the post structuralist theory of intertextuality to early modern texts. It suggests that a return to a more theorised understanding of intertextuality, as that outlined by Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes, is more productive than an interpretation which merely identifies ‘source’ texts. The book analyses several key early modern texts through this lens, arguing that the period’s conscious focus on and prioritisation of the creative imitation of classical and contemporary European texts makes it a particularly fertile era for intertextual reading. This analysis includes discussion of early modern creative writers’ utilisation of classical mythology, allegory, folklore, parody, and satire, in works by William Shakespeare, Sir Francis Bacon, John Milton, George Peele, Thomas Lodge, Christopher Marlowe, Francis Beaumont, and Ben Jonson, and foregrounds how meaning is created and conveyed by the interplay of texts and the movement between narrative systems. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of early modern literature, as well as early modern scholars.

The genres of Renaissance tragedy

Author: Daniel Cadman

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2019-02-25

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1526138271

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These twelve new essays show the variety and versatility of Renaissance tragedy and highlight the issues it explores. Each chapter defines a particular kind of Renaissance tragedy and offers new research on a particularly striking example. Collectively the essays offer a critical overview of Renaissance tragedy as a genre.

Allusions and Reflections

Author: Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2015-06-18

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 144387891X

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In June 2012, scholars from a number of disciplines and countries gathered in Stockholm to discuss the representation of ancient mythology in Renaissance Europe. This symposium was an opportunity for the participants to cross disciplinary borders and to problematize a well-researched field. The aim was to move beyond a view of mythology as mere propaganda in order to promote an understanding of ancient tales and fables as contemporary means to explain and comprehend the Early Modern world. W ...

Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500–1700

Author: C. Malcolmson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-08-02

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0230107540

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This book explores the construction of gender ideology in early modern England through an analysis of the querelle des femmes - the debate about the relationship between the sexes that originated on the continent during the middle ages and the Renaissance and developed in England into the Swetnam controversy, which revolved around the publication of Joseph Swetnam's The arraignment of lewd, forward, and inconstant women and the pamphlets which responded to its misogynist attacks. The volume contextualizes the debate in terms of its continental antecedents and elite manuscript circulation in England, then moves to consider popular culture and printed texts from the Jacobean debate and its effects on women's writing and the developing discourse on gender, and concludes with an examination of the ramifications of the debate during the Civil War and Restoration. Essays focus attention on the implications of the gender debate for women writers and their literary relations, cultural ideology and the family, and political discourse and ideas of nationhood.

Separation Scenes

Author: Ann C. Christensen

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2017-01-01

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0803290659

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Absent Husbands and Unpartnered Wivesin Early Modern England -- 1. Housekeeping and Forlorn Travel in Arden of Faversham -- 2. The Doorstep and the Exchange in A Warning for Fair Women -- 3. One Man's Calling in A Woman Killed with Kindness -- 4. Women, Work, and Windows in Women Beware Women -- 5. The East India Company and the Domestic Economy in The Launchingof the Mary, or The Seaman's Honest Wife -- Epilogue: John and Anne Donneand the Culture of Business -- Notes