Erotic Politics: The Dynamics of Desire in the Renaissance Theatre

by Susan Zimmerman (Editor)

Overview

Identifying the stage as a primary site for erotic display, these essays take eroticism in Renaissance culture as a paradigm for issues of sexuality and identity in early modern culture. Contributors examine how the Renaissance stage functioned as a decoder for erotic experience, both reinforcing and subverting expected sexual behaviour. They argue that the dynamics of theatrical eroticism served to deconstruct gender definitions, leaving conventional categories of sexuality blurred, confused - or absent.
In seeking to reposition the conventions and subversions of gender and desire in terms of one another, these essays open up an attractive and distinctive perspective in cultural debate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415066471
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/17/1992
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Contributors include: Peter Stallybrass, Valerie Traub, Catherine Belsey Jean E. Howard,