Masculinity, Corporality and the English Stage 1580-1635 Paperback / softback
by Christian M. Billing
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The significance of human anatomy to the most physical of art forms, the theatre, has hitherto been an under-explored topic.
Filling this gap, Christian Billing questions conventional wisdom regarding the one-sex anatomical model and uses a range of medical treatises to delineate an emergent two-sex paradigm of human biology.
The impact such a model had on the staging of the human form in English professional theatre is also explored in appraisals of: (i) the homo-erotic significance of a two-sex paradigm; (ii) social and theatrical cross-dressing; (iii) the uses of theatrical androgyny; (iv) masculine corporality and the representation of assertive women; and (v) the theatrical poetics of human dissection.
Billing supports cultural and scientific study with close-readings of Lyly, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, Beaumont, Fletcher, and Ford.
The book provides a sophisticated and original analysis of the early modern stage body as a discursive site in wider debates concerning sexuality and gender.
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- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:19/12/2018
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- ISBN:9781138376021
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:19/12/2018
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- ISBN:9781138376021