The Performance of Pleasure in English Renaissance Drama

Huebert, R.

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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2003-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349432547

DOI: 10.1057/9780230503168

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 218