Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance DramaTextual Intercourse proposes that the language and practice of writing plays in early modern England was inextricably linked to languages and practices of eroticism, sexuality and reproduction. Jeffrey Masten reads a range of early modern materials - burial records, contemporary biographical anecdotes and theatrical records, essays, conduct books and poems; the printed apparatus of published plays, and the plays themselves - to illustrate the ways in which writing for the theatre shifted from a model of homoerotic collaboration toward one of singular authorship on a patriarchal-absolutist model. Plays and collections of plays by Shakespeare, Shakespeare and Fletcher, Beaumont and Fletcher, Margaret Cavendish, and others, are considered. Textual Intercourse illustrate the ways in which methods attuned to sexuality and gender can illuminate more traditional questions of authorship, attribution, textual editing and intellectual property. |
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... to finish , and begin . At Harvard , particular chapters were constructively questioned by friends and colleagues : Doug Bruster , Dan Donoghue , Philip Fisher , Elizabeth Fowler , Marjorie Garber , Scott Gordon , Roland xi Acknowledgments.
... to finish , and begin . At Harvard , particular chapters were constructively questioned by friends and colleagues : Doug Bruster , Dan Donoghue , Philip Fisher , Elizabeth Fowler , Marjorie Garber , Scott Gordon , Roland xi Acknowledgments.
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... chapter 1 , which first appeared in English Literary History 59 ( 1992 ) ; and to Duke University Press for permission to publish a revised version of material in chapters 2 , 4 , and 5 , first published in Queering the Renaissance ...
... chapter 1 , which first appeared in English Literary History 59 ( 1992 ) ; and to Duke University Press for permission to publish a revised version of material in chapters 2 , 4 , and 5 , first published in Queering the Renaissance ...
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... chapter 2 ) the more widespread bonds in this culture among those who were , or desired to be , English gentlemen . ( The full contextualization of the homoerotic meanings of Cokain's language will have to wait until that chapter's ...
... chapter 2 ) the more widespread bonds in this culture among those who were , or desired to be , English gentlemen . ( The full contextualization of the homoerotic meanings of Cokain's language will have to wait until that chapter's ...
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... chapter 2 - in which Fletcher and another of his collaborators , Francis Beaumont , lay there together ( alive ) , in a house " not far from the Play - house " that they shared , along with their clothes and bed , their writing , and a ...
... chapter 2 - in which Fletcher and another of his collaborators , Francis Beaumont , lay there together ( alive ) , in a house " not far from the Play - house " that they shared , along with their clothes and bed , their writing , and a ...
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... chapter 1 attempts to expand and complicate our under- standing of the ways in which those theatres produced collaborative texts . Though drama is this book's predominant focus , it is important to stress that it is only one of many ...
... chapter 1 attempts to expand and complicate our under- standing of the ways in which those theatres produced collaborative texts . Though drama is this book's predominant focus , it is important to stress that it is only one of many ...
Contents
Seeing double collaboration and the interpretation of Renaissance drama | 12 |
Between gentlemen homoeroticism collaboration and the discourse of friendship | 28 |
Representing authority patriarchalism absolutism and the author on stage | 63 |
Reproducing works dramatic quartos and folios in the seventeenth century | 113 |
Mistris corrivall Margaret Cavendishs dramatic production | 156 |
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Page 1 - In the same Grave Fletcher was buried, here Lies the Stage-Poet, Philip Massinger. Playes they did write together; were great friends, And now one grave includes them in their ends. So whom on earth nothing did part, beneath Here (in their Fames) they lie, in spight of death.