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Record Nr.

UNINA9910272352603321

Autore

Rose Mary Beth

Titolo

The Expense of Spirit : Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama / / Mary Beth Rose

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2018]

©1991

ISBN

1-5017-2810-5

1-5017-2324-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 pages)

Disciplina

822/.3/09354

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage, Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and transforming them.