Gabriel A Rieger

Sex and Satiric Tragedy in Early Modern England

Penetrating Wit

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781409400295
• ISBN-10: 1409400298
• Artikelnr.: 44974040

Autorenporträt

Gabriel A. Rieger is an assistant professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Concord University in Athens, West Virginia, where he lives with his wife and daughter

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: sex, stoicism and satyre: the roots of satiric tragedy
'You go not till I set you up a glass': the death of Elizabeth and the languages of gender
'Deep ruts and fouls sloughs': sexually descriptive language and the narrative of disease
'I'll have my will': frustrated desire and commercial culture
'I am worth no worse a place': service, subjugation and satire
Conclusion: erotic aggression and satiric tragedy
Appendix
Works cited, Index.