Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage by Celia R Daileader
In this 1998 book, Celia Daileader explores the paradoxes of eroticism on the stage in early modern England, where women and their bodies (represented by boy actors) were materially absent and yet symbolically central. Her starting point is the theoretical and theatrical problem of sexual acts that take place offstage, which is a paradigm for the limits of the visible in Renaissance theatre. The space that lies offstage becomes an imaginary realm, encompassing both spiritual and erotic transcendence. In accounting for its power, Daileader looks to the suppression of religious drama in England and the resulting secularization of the stage. Focusing on the link between absence and desire, and discussing a wide range of drama from Corpus Christi plays to Shakespeare, her argument draws together questions about sexuality and the sacred, in the bodies - of Christ and of woman - that are banished from the early modern English stage.-
The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama
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Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
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Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture
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Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference
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Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England
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Defending Literature in Early Modern England
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The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England
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The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World
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The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature
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Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama
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The Marketplace of Print
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The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative
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The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590–1612
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Before Orientalism
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Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship
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The Italian Encounter with Tudor England
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Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England
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Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe
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Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature
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Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII
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Shakespeare and Domestic Loss
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Theatres and Encyclopedias in Early Modern Europe
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The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England
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The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare
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The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare
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Theatre, Finance and Society in Early Modern England
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Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England
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Seizures of the Will in Early Modern English Drama
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Voyages in Print
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Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England
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The Reformation of the Subject
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The Emergence of the English Author
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Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England
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From Playhouse to Printing House
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The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England
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Mimesis and Empire
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The Romance of the New World
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Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England
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Author's Pen and Actor's Voice
'In this exciting new book, Celia RDaileader creates a bold and original thesis from her observation that the early modern theatre featured no actual female bodies ... imaginatively invigorates our senses, quickens our intellect and transforms our knowledge.' Mark Thornton Burnett, Theatre Research International
Daileader, Celia R.: - Celia R. Daileader is Associate Professor of English in the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama. She is the author of Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage: Transcendence, Desire, and the Limits of the Visible (Cambridge, 1998), and has published numerous articles on feminist theory and criticism, critical race studies, and Renaissance literature. She is co-editor with Gary Taylor of John Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed, and co-editor with Rhoda Johnson and Amilcar Shabazz of Women and Others: Racial and Gender Difference in Anglo-American Literature and Culture.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521623797 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521623790 |
| Title | Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage |
| Author | Celia R Daileader |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Renaissance Literature And Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1998-11-28 |
| Number of pages | 210 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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