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The Performance of Pleasure in English Renaissance Drama
R. Huebert
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Description for The Performance of Pleasure in English Renaissance Drama
Paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Offering new and theatrically informed readings of plays by a broad range of Renaissance dramatists - including Marlowe, Jonson, Marston, Webster, Middleton and Ford - this new book addresses the question of pleasure: both erotic pleasure as represented on stage and aesthetic pleasure as experienced by readers and spectators. Some of the issues raised (the distribution of pleasure by gender, the notion of consent) intersect with feminist reinterpretations of Renaissance culture.
Offering new and theatrically informed readings of plays by a broad range of Renaissance dramatists - including Marlowe, Jonson, Marston, Webster, Middleton and Ford - this new book addresses the question of pleasure: both erotic pleasure as represented on stage and aesthetic pleasure as experienced by readers and spectators. Some of the issues raised (the distribution of pleasure by gender, the notion of consent) intersect with feminist reinterpretations of Renaissance culture.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349432547
SKU
V9781349432547
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Ref
99-15
About R. Huebert
RONALD HUEBERT is Professor of English at Dalhousie University and Carnegie Professor at the University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the current editor of The Dalhousie Review, the author of John Ford: Baroque English Dramatist and the editor of James Shirley's The Lady of Pleasure in the Revels series.
Reviews for The Performance of Pleasure in English Renaissance Drama
'Huebert's evident fascination with his subject results in a very readable and engaging book, both for scholars of the renaiisance and interested laymen...it is ultimately a highly interasting, thoughtful, well-structured, and 'pleasurable' encounter with an influential theme inherent in English Renaissance drama.' - Winter Elliott, Consciousness, Literature and the Arts