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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... relation of Massinger to Fletcher , or of Cokain to either , or ( as is more to the point in this investigation ) ... relations ) , and second , the alterity of this configuration to more modern eyes . To unearth what such a configuration ...
... relation of Massinger to Fletcher , or of Cokain to either , or ( as is more to the point in this investigation ) ... relations ) , and second , the alterity of this configuration to more modern eyes . To unearth what such a configuration ...
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... relations and their sexual ones . 15 This project , then , emerges from a pair of related perceptions about early modern ... relation to which we will return in detail in 18 chapter 2 : " New Playes , and Maydenheads , 4 Textual intercourse.
... relations and their sexual ones . 15 This project , then , emerges from a pair of related perceptions about early modern ... relation to which we will return in detail in 18 chapter 2 : " New Playes , and Maydenheads , 4 Textual intercourse.
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... relations among men21 in the Renaissance - and among men and women , as my references to Gayle Rubin's and Eve Sedgwick's formulations suggest and of our approaches to textual production , circulation , and property . Indeed , as the ...
... relations among men21 in the Renaissance - and among men and women , as my references to Gayle Rubin's and Eve Sedgwick's formulations suggest and of our approaches to textual production , circulation , and property . Indeed , as the ...
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... relation between what we have tended to view as two distinct discourses : of sexuality and eroticism , and of writing and authorship . This book attempts to reintegrate those discourses by reading together the " rheto- rics " of ...
... relation between what we have tended to view as two distinct discourses : of sexuality and eroticism , and of writing and authorship . This book attempts to reintegrate those discourses by reading together the " rheto- rics " of ...
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... relation to discourses of patriarchal absolutism in the Workes of James I and others . These developments are ... relations between men and the construction of an authorship initially gendered male will include centrally a consideration ...
... relation to discourses of patriarchal absolutism in the Workes of James I and others . These developments are ... relations between men and the construction of an authorship initially gendered male will include centrally a consideration ...
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.