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UNINA9910272352603321 |
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Autore |
Rose Mary Beth |
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Titolo |
The Expense of Spirit : Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama / / Mary Beth Rose |
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Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2018] |
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©1991 |
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1-5017-2810-5 |
1-5017-2324-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (239 pages) |
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Soggetti |
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English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism |
Love in literature |
English drama - 17th century - History and criticism |
Women and literature - England - History - 17th century |
Women and literature - England - History - 16th century |
Literary form - History - 17th century |
Literary form - History - 16th century |
Women - England - History |
Renaissance - England |
Sex in literature |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Moral Conceptions of Sexual Love in Elizabethan Comedy -- 2. Sexual Disguise and Social Mobility in Jacobean City Comedy -- 3. A Waste of Shame: The Heroics of Marriage in English Renaissance Tragedy -- 4. Transforming Sexuality : Jacobean Tragicomedy and the Reconfiguration of Private Life -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and |
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