Title Wanton words : rhetoric and sexuality in English Renaissance drama / Madhavi Menon

Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreplay -- 1 Setting the Stage: Metaphor -- 2 Performance Anxiety: Metonymy, Richard II, The Roaring Girl -- 3 First Night: Metalepsis, Romeo and Juliet, All's Well that Ends Well -- 4 Cast in Order of Appearance: Catachresis, Othello, King John -- 5 Encore! Allegory, Volpone, The Tempest -- After Words: Henry VIII and the Ends of History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y Summary "In Wanton Words, Madhavi Menon intimately and expertly couples classical and Renaissance handbooks of rhetoric with canonical Renaissance plays and demonstrates their shared propensity to speak about sex - often transgressive sex - in the same instance that they speak about the workings of language." "While other studies of rhetoric have confined their analyses to local questions of interpretive interest, Menon introduces rhetoric into the largely medico-juridical realm of studies on Renaissance sexuality. In doing so, she suggests that rhetoric allows us to think through the erotics of language in ways that pay most attention to the frisson of English Renaissance drama. Sustained deconstructive parsings of tropes - metaphor, metonymy, allegory, catachresis, and more - enables their wantonness to emerge in subjects usually considered unrelated to rhetoric: race in Othello, colonialism in The Tempest, tragedy in Romeo and Juliet, and cowardice in The Roaring Girl."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-230) and index Subject English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism Sex in literature. English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Rhetoric English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism Language and sex -- England -- History Renaissance -- England Figures of speech. Language and sex -- England -- History -- 16th century DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English drama English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan English language -- Early modern -- Rhetoric Figures of speech Language and sex Renaissance Sex in literature England Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781442683228 1442683228

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