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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... figures as an intractable curiosity or desire , of searching the annals of the past for erotic subjects motivated by our desires and living our practices , with the cultural and political meanings we associate with these desires and ...
... figures as an intractable curiosity or desire , of searching the annals of the past for erotic subjects motivated by our desires and living our practices , with the cultural and political meanings we associate with these desires and ...
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... figures as gay - " outing " them - seems the mildest of possible claims one might make on the basis of the evidence we will read , because it locates gaiety only in specific indivi- duals , working effectively to quarantine other ...
... figures as gay - " outing " them - seems the mildest of possible claims one might make on the basis of the evidence we will read , because it locates gaiety only in specific indivi- duals , working effectively to quarantine other ...
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... figures like Gower in Pericles - figures that appear on stage as " authors " of a theatrical event - and traces this emergence in relation to discourses of patriarchal absolutism in the Workes of James I and others . These developments ...
... figures like Gower in Pericles - figures that appear on stage as " authors " of a theatrical event - and traces this emergence in relation to discourses of patriarchal absolutism in the Workes of James I and others . These developments ...
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... figure of Shakespeare , for it is here that there is the most to be realized through revisions of textuality and sexuality in the study of early modern drama . As we will see more particularly in chapter 2's analysis of The Two ...
... figure of Shakespeare , for it is here that there is the most to be realized through revisions of textuality and sexuality in the study of early modern drama . As we will see more particularly in chapter 2's analysis of The Two ...
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... figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning " , 42 by demonstrating a thematics of colla- boration in some " Shakespearean " texts and by illustrating the emer- gence of the author as ...
... figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning " , 42 by demonstrating a thematics of colla- boration in some " Shakespearean " texts and by illustrating the emer- gence of the author as ...
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.