LEADER 04010nam 22006012 450 001 9910777645303321 005 20230617003802.0 010 $a94-012-0155-2 010 $a1-4237-9090-1 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401201551 035 $a(CKB)1000000000462561 035 $a(EBL)556621 035 $a(OCoLC)714567332 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000113486 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12052609 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113486 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10099766 035 $a(PQKB)10501784 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556621 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556621 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380330 035 $a(OCoLC)70850406 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401201551 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000462561 100 $a20200716d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBodies and their Spaces $eSystem, Crisis and Transformation in Early Modern Theatre /$fRussell West-Pavlov 210 1$aLeiden;$aBoston :$cBRILL,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (262 p.) 225 1 $aCosterus New Series ;$v156 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-1688-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgements -- Introduction: Staging Gendered Space -- Ch. 1: Divide and Rule: The Early Modern Gender System and Private Space -- Ch. 2: The Difference that Makes a Difference: Emergent Gender Systems -- Ch. 3: The Observer Observed: Differentiation and the Theatrical System -- Ch. 4: Posing Manliness: Work and Space as Paradigms of Early Modern Masculinity -- Ch. 5: The Aporias of Masculinity: Systemic Interpenetration and Systemic Instability -- Ch. 6: Author of Himself: Masculinity, Civility and the Closure of the Body -- Ch. 7: Leaky Vessels: Femininity, the Humoral Economy and Systemic Boundaries -- Ch. 8: Women's Worlds: Women in the Public Sphere: Space, Community, Language -- Ch. 9: Redrawing the Boundaries: Emergent Gender Spaces on the Stage -- Conclusion: The Alteration in Apparel: Cross-Dressing and the Emergent Gender System -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aBodies and their Spaces: System, Crisis and Transformation in Early Modern Theatre explores the emergence of the distinctively modern "gender system" at the close of the early modern period. The book investigates shifts in the gendered spaces assigned to men and women in the "public" and "private" domains and their changing modes of interconnection; in concert with these social spaces it examines the emergence of biologically based notions of sex and a novel sense of individual subjectivity. These parallel and linked transformations converged in the development of a new gender system which more efficiently enforced the requirements of patriarchy under the evolving economic conditions of merchant capitalism. These changes can be seen to be rehearsed, contested and debated in literary artefacts of the early modern period - in particular the drama. This book suggests that until the closure of the English theatres in 1642, the drama not only reflected but also exacerbated the turbulence surrounding gender configurations in transition in early modern society. The book reads a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic texts, and interprets them with the aid of the "systems theory" developed by the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. 410 0$aCosterus New Series ;$v156. 517 3 $aSystem, Crisis and Transformation in Early Modern Theatre 606 $aEnglish drama$y17th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTheater$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 676 $a822.309 700 $aWest-Pavlov$b Russell$f1964-,$0606939 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777645303321 996 $aBodies and their Spaces$93830741 997 $aUNINA