Christian M. Billing

Masculinity, Corporality and the English Stage 1580-1635

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Produktbeschreibung

The significance of human anatomy to the most physical of art forms, the theatre, has hitherto been an under-explored topic. Filling this gap, Christian Billing questions conventional wisdom regarding the one-sex anatomical model and uses a range of medical treatises to delineate an emergent two-sex paradigm of human biology. The impact such a model had on the staging of the human form in English professional theatre is also explored in appraisals of: (i) the homo-erotic significance of a two-sex paradigm; (ii) social and theatrical cross-dressing; (iii) the uses of theatrical androgyny; (iv) masculine corporality and the representation of assertive women; and (v) the theatrical poetics of human dissection. Billing supports cultural and scientific study with close-readings of Lyly, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, Beaumont, Fletcher, and Ford. The book provides a sophisticated and original analysis of the early modern stage body as a discursive site in wider debates concerning sexuality and gender.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9780754656517
• ISBN-10: 0754656519
• Artikelnr.: 44789079

Autorenporträt

Christian M. Billing is Lecturer in Drama at the University of Hull, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Man made woman: early modern anatomy and the emergence of sexual difference
Homoerotic metamorphoses: Ide, Gallathea and Falstaff
Apparel anatomy, agency: performative challenges to masculine authority
Roaring girls and tragic maids: strategies of dramatic recuperation
Misogynist anatomy: the visceral imperatives of Fordian tragedy
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index.