Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage - Transcendence, Desire, and the Limits of the Visible

Klappentext This 1998 book explores eroticism on the early modern English stage, and the analogous suppression of religious drama. Zusammenfassung In this 1998 book! Celia Daileader explores paradoxes of eroticism on the early modern English stage! where women were materially absent but symbolically central. She draws an analogy with the suppression of religious drama in England and draws together questions about the bodies - of Christ and of woman - banished from the stage. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Entrances: sex, women, God; 2. Offstage sex and female desire; 3. Body beneath/body beyond; 4. (Off)Staging the sacred; 5. Obscene and unseen; 6. Ejaculations and conclusions: toward an erotic theoretics; Appendices; Notes; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Celia R. Daileader, Celia R. (University of Alabama) Daileader
• Con la collaborazione di: Anne Barton (Editore), Stephen Orgel (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 14.12.2006
• EAN: 9780521034678
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03467-8
• Pagine: 212
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Renaissan; Cambridge Studies in Renaissan
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto