Cover -- Erotic Politics -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 The subtexts of The Roaring Girl -- i -- ii -- iii -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Twins and travesties -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Disruptive desire -- i -- ii -- iii -- iv -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Transvestism and the 'body beneath' -- The prosthetic body -- The transvestite body 8 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 Desire's excess and the English Renaissance theatre -- i -- ii -- iii -- iv -- v -- vi -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 -- i -- ii -- iii -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8 Making a difference -- Gendering genre -- Differentiating likenesses in tragedy -- Likening differences in comedy -- Verifying differences in tragi-comedy -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9 The (in)significance of lesbian' desire in early modern England -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 Sex and social conflict -- The conflicted terrain of erotic possibility -- The Roaring Girl and her viol -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary
Taking eroticism on the English Renaissance stage as a paradigm for issues of sexuality and identity, this collection of essays examines representations of eroticism in English Renaissance theatre showing how the dynamics of theatical eroticism served to deconstruct gender definitions
Analysis
English drama Special subjects Sexuality History, 1558-1625
