Shakespeare, Sex and the Print RevolutionThis book investigates how the sexual element in Shakespeare's works is complicated and compromised by the impact of print. Whether the issue is one of censorship and evasion or sexual redefinition, the fact that Shakespeare wrote in the first century of popular print is crucial. Out of the newly-accessible classical canon he creates a reconstituted idea of the sexual temptress; and out of the Counter-Reformation propaganda he fashions his own complex thinking about the prostitute. Shakespeare's theatrical scripts, meeting-ground fro the spoken and written word, contribute powerfully to those socio-sexual debates which had been re-energized by print. |
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... Elizabethan literature and the large movements of political and cultural change which had been taking place during the previous hundred years . A momentous factor in this change is print , which transformed the sixteenth century just as ...
... Elizabethan literature and the large movements of political and cultural change which had been taking place during the previous hundred years . A momentous factor in this change is print , which transformed the sixteenth century just as ...
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... Elizabethan stage , Robert Weimann takes the view that the miracle play's ' channels were not primarily verbal'.1 That probably remains true for the theatre in Shakespeare's day , which plainly asserted its vitality in various complex ...
... Elizabethan stage , Robert Weimann takes the view that the miracle play's ' channels were not primarily verbal'.1 That probably remains true for the theatre in Shakespeare's day , which plainly asserted its vitality in various complex ...
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... Elizabethan theatre is an obvious , if indirect , beneficiary of that culture . Its rapid development in the late years of the reign parallels that of woodcut in South Germany following the advent of print . There too , the medium was ...
... Elizabethan theatre is an obvious , if indirect , beneficiary of that culture . Its rapid development in the late years of the reign parallels that of woodcut in South Germany following the advent of print . There too , the medium was ...
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Gordon Williams. author - company relationship which operated in the Elizabethan theatre . That relationship involves notably controversial questions of rewriting and improvisation , both particularly germane to a consideration of sexual ...
Gordon Williams. author - company relationship which operated in the Elizabethan theatre . That relationship involves notably controversial questions of rewriting and improvisation , both particularly germane to a consideration of sexual ...
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Contents
The Shakespearean Reputation | 7 |
Performance versus Text | 14 |
Censorship and Evasion | 25 |
The First Print Era ReaderSpectator as Voyeur | 46 |
Shakespeare and the Classics | 57 |
Roman Rapes | 59 |
Sexual Temptresses | 74 |
Trojan Whores | 99 |
Introduction | 147 |
The Education of Women Textual Authority or Sexual Licence | 151 |
Othello Cuckoldry and the Doctrine of Generality | 173 |
Class and Courtship Ritual in Much Ado | 195 |
Honest Whores or the State as Brothel | 209 |
Conclusion | 227 |
Notes | 232 |
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