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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... critical treatment of collaboration and authorship in Renaissance dramatic texts . The chapter urges both that we no longer regard collaboration as an aberrant form of textual production in a period and genre in which it in fact ...
... critical treatment of collaboration and authorship in Renaissance dramatic texts . The chapter urges both that we no longer regard collaboration as an aberrant form of textual production in a period and genre in which it in fact ...
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... critical fashion , this book thus attempts to make strange ( or rather , to demonstrate how the texts of this period themselves make strange ) our own normative conceptions of textual production and property , and of essential sexuality ...
... critical fashion , this book thus attempts to make strange ( or rather , to demonstrate how the texts of this period themselves make strange ) our own normative conceptions of textual production and property , and of essential sexuality ...
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... critical practice by analyzing certain significant discursive sites . 44 Finally , a few words ( but by no means the last ) about the particularity of those sites about texts and citations . One of the corollary arguments of this book ...
... critical practice by analyzing certain significant discursive sites . 44 Finally , a few words ( but by no means the last ) about the particularity of those sites about texts and citations . One of the corollary arguments of this book ...
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... critical practice . ( To the extent possible , I have also retained the original emphases in the texts I cite.45 In printed book titles , early modern capitalization has been followed where possible in the notes and bibliography ...
... critical practice . ( To the extent possible , I have also retained the original emphases in the texts I cite.45 In printed book titles , early modern capitalization has been followed where possible in the notes and bibliography ...
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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.