03817nam 2200781 450 991045653000332120200520144314.01-4426-5973-41-281-99478-297866119947851-4426-8322-810.3138/9781442683228(CKB)2430000000001912(EBL)4670205(SSID)ssj0000312928(PQKBManifestationID)11259005(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000312928(PQKBWorkID)10352592(PQKB)10433105(CaBNvSL)thg00601005(MiAaPQ)EBC3255253(MiAaPQ)EBC4672240(CEL)417610(OCoLC)903441057(CaBNVSL)thg00915966(MiAaPQ)EBC4670205(DE-B1597)465099(OCoLC)1013956622(OCoLC)944177321(DE-B1597)9781442683228(Au-PeEL)EBL4672240(CaPaEBR)ebr11257914(OCoLC)958581357(EXLCZ)99243000000000191220160922h20042004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWanton words rhetoric and sexuality in English Renaissance drama /Madhavi Menon2nd ed.Toronto, [Canada] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2004.©20041 online resource (466 p.)0-8020-7136-8 0-8020-8837-6 Includes bibliographical references and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreplay -- 1. Setting the Stage: Metaphor -- 2. Performance Anxiety: Metonymy, Richard II, The Roaring Girl -- 3. First Night: Metalepsis, Romeo and Juliet, All's Well that Ends Well -- 4. Cast in Order of Appearance: Catachresis, Othello, King John -- 5. Encore! Allegory, Volpone, The Tempest -- After Words: Henry VIII and the Ends of History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexIn Wanton Words, Madhavi Menon intimately and expertly couples classical and Renaissance handbooks of rhetoric with canonical Renaissance plays and demonstrates their shared propensity to speak about sex ? often transgressive sex ? in the same instance that they speak about the workings of language.While other studies of rhetoric have confined their analyses to local questions of interpretive interest, Menon introduces rhetoric into the largely medico-juridical realm of studies on Renaissance sexuality. In doing so, she suggests that rhetoric allows us to think through the erotics of language in ways that pay most attention to the frisson of English Renaissance drama. Sustained deconstructive parsings of tropes ? metaphor, metonymy, allegory, catechresis, and more ? enables their wantonness to emerge in subjects usually considered unrelated to rhetoric: race in Othello, colonialism in The Tempest, tragedy in Romeo and Juliet, and cowardice in The Roaring Girl.English dramaEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600History and criticismSex in literatureEnglish languageEarly modern, 1500-1700RhetoricEnglish drama17th centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books.English dramaHistory and criticism.Sex in literature.English languageRhetoric.English dramaHistory and criticism.822/.3093538Menon Madhavi896932MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456530003321Wanton words2004153UNINA