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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Page xi
... particular debts , borrowings , and rearticulations , but here I cite other collaborations : how might I fully separate out these contributions , or know who is speaking a given word or sentence or method , so as to mark it ? This ...
... particular debts , borrowings , and rearticulations , but here I cite other collaborations : how might I fully separate out these contributions , or know who is speaking a given word or sentence or method , so as to mark it ? This ...
Page xii
... particular , the work and encouragement of Jonathan Gold- berg , David Kastan , Karen Newman , and Valerie Traub have helped to write this book . I'm grateful to Stephen Orgel for the example of his work and for his generous attention ...
... particular , the work and encouragement of Jonathan Gold- berg , David Kastan , Karen Newman , and Valerie Traub have helped to write this book . I'm grateful to Stephen Orgel for the example of his work and for his generous attention ...
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... particular sex / gender context and that gender and sexuality are themselves in part produced in and by texts . At this conjunction , the project necessarily attempts a revision both of our assumptions about sexual / social relations ...
... particular sex / gender context and that gender and sexuality are themselves in part produced in and by texts . At this conjunction , the project necessarily attempts a revision both of our assumptions about sexual / social relations ...
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... particular , early editions of The Knight of the Burning Pestle ) , the chapter introduces a detailed material ( ist ) approach to collaboration and authorship that relies upon but also revises Foucault's idealized renuncia- tion of the ...
... particular , early editions of The Knight of the Burning Pestle ) , the chapter introduces a detailed material ( ist ) approach to collaboration and authorship that relies upon but also revises Foucault's idealized renuncia- tion of the ...
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... particular analyses , the concen- tration on relations between men and the construction of an authorship initially gendered male will include centrally a consideration of the position of women . In fact , an analysis of period attempts ...
... particular analyses , the concen- tration on relations between men and the construction of an authorship initially gendered male will include centrally a consideration of the position of women . In fact , an analysis of period attempts ...
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.