Sex and Satiric Tragedy in Early Modern England

Sex and Satiric Tragedy in Early Modern England
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Total Pages : 269
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ISBN-10 : 9781351900942
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Book Synopsis Sex and Satiric Tragedy in Early Modern England by : Gabriel A. Rieger

Download or read book Sex and Satiric Tragedy in Early Modern England written by Gabriel A. Rieger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon recent scholarship in Renaissance studies regarding notions of the body, political, physical and social, this study examines how the satiric tragedians of the English Renaissance employ the languages of sex - including sexual slander, titillation, insinuation and obscenity - in the service of satiric aggression. There is a close association between the genre of satire and sexually descriptive language in the period, author Gabriel Rieger argues, particularly in the ways in which both the genre and the languages embody systems of oppositions. In exploring the various purposes which sexually descriptive language serves for the satiric tragedian, Rieger reviews a broad range of texts, ancient, Renaissance, and contemporary, by satiric tragedians, moralists, medical writers and critics, paying particular attention to the works of William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton and John Webster


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