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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... Sexual Temptresses 74 7 Trojan Whores 99 8 Cupid - Adonis : ' Prettie Boyes ' and ' Unlawfull Joyes ' 9 Pox and Gold : Timon's New World Heritage 119 129 PART III The Sexual Reformation 145 Introduction 147 10 The Education of Women ...
... Sexual Temptresses 74 7 Trojan Whores 99 8 Cupid - Adonis : ' Prettie Boyes ' and ' Unlawfull Joyes ' 9 Pox and Gold : Timon's New World Heritage 119 129 PART III The Sexual Reformation 145 Introduction 147 10 The Education of Women ...
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... sexual usage which has already spawned A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature ( Athlone , 1994 ) . But the present book has also grown out of my experience of teaching a Renaissance component ...
... sexual usage which has already spawned A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature ( Athlone , 1994 ) . But the present book has also grown out of my experience of teaching a Renaissance component ...
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... . A NOTE ON THE TEXT REFERENCES Works cited in abbreviated form in the text may be found in the Select Bibliography . Introduction Our immediate concern , the sexual element in Shakespeare's Preface ix A Note on the Text References.
... . A NOTE ON THE TEXT REFERENCES Works cited in abbreviated form in the text may be found in the Select Bibliography . Introduction Our immediate concern , the sexual element in Shakespeare's Preface ix A Note on the Text References.
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... sexual expression . It may be asked whether print actually boosted the extent of sexual vocabulary or merely made it more visible . But given the general language explosion in the sixteenth century the language almost doubled itself ...
... sexual expression . It may be asked whether print actually boosted the extent of sexual vocabulary or merely made it more visible . But given the general language explosion in the sixteenth century the language almost doubled itself ...
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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