04137nam 2200805 a 450 991078858440332120200520144314.01-283-89660-50-8122-0515-410.9783/9780812205152(CKB)3240000000064736(OCoLC)810039530(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642673(SSID)ssj0000631093(PQKBManifestationID)11389404(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631093(PQKBWorkID)10591637(PQKB)11186929(OCoLC)794700694(MdBmJHUP)muse17951(DE-B1597)449456(OCoLC)979954214(DE-B1597)9780812205152(Au-PeEL)EBL3441921(CaPaEBR)ebr10642673(CaONFJC)MIL420910(MiAaPQ)EBC3441921(EXLCZ)99324000000006473620110531d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSexual types[electronic resource] embodiment, agency, and dramatic character from Shakespeare to Shirley /Mario DiGangi1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20111 online resource (305 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-4361-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Sexual types and necessary classifications -- pt. 2. Sexual types and social discriminations -- pt. 3. Sexual types and intermediary functions.Sexual types on the early modern stage are at once strange and familiar, associated with a range of "unnatural" or "monstrous" sexual and gender practices, yet familiar because readily identifiable as types: recognizable figures of literary imagination and social fantasy. From the many found in early modern culture, Mario DiGangi here focuses on six types that reveal in particularly compelling ways, both individually and collectively, how sexual transgressions were understood to intersect with social, gender, economic, and political transgressions.Building on feminist and queer scholarship, Sexual Types demonstrates how the sodomite, the tribade (a woman-loving woman), the narcissistic courtier, the citizen wife, the bawd, and the court favorite function as sites of ideological contradiction in dramatic texts. On the one hand, these sexual types are vilified and disciplined for violating social and sexual norms; on the other hand, they can take the form of dynamic, resourceful characters who expose the limitations of the categories that attempt to define and contain them. In bringing sexuality and character studies into conjunction with one another, Sexual Types provides illuminating new readings of familiar plays, such as Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale, and of lesser-known plays by Fletcher, Middleton, and Shirley.English dramaEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600History and criticismEnglish drama17th centuryHistory and criticismSex in literatureCharacters and characteristics in literatureTypology (Psychology) in literatureStereotypes (Social psychology) in literatureCultural Studies.Gender Studies.LC.Literature.Medieval and Renaissance Studies.Women's Studies.English dramaHistory and criticism.English dramaHistory and criticism.Sex in literature.Characters and characteristics in literature.Typology (Psychology) in literature.Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.822/.309353DiGangi Mario1467641MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788584403321Sexual types3678375UNINA