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.
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.
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
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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.
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.
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