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, Midd...
For at least a generation, scholars have asserted that privacy barely existed in the early modern era. The divide between the public and private was vague, they say, and the concept, if it was acknowledged, was rarely valued. In Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare, Ronald Huebert challenges these assumptions by marshalling evidence that it was in Shakespeare's time that the idea of privacy went from a marginal notion to a desirable quality.
The era of transition begins with More's Utopia (1516), in which privacy is forbidden. It ends with Milton's Paradise...
For at least a generation, scholars have asserted that privacy barely existed in the early modern era. The divide between the public and private wa...
