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Bodies and their spaces : system, crisis and transformation in early modern theatre / / [Russell West-Pavlov]



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Autore: West-Pavlov Russell <1964-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Bodies and their spaces : system, crisis and transformation in early modern theatre / / [Russell West-Pavlov] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, c2006
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
Disciplina: 822.309
Soggetto topico: English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism
Gender identity in literature
Sex role in literature
Theater and society - England - History
Theater - Great Britain - History - 16th century
Theater - Great Britain - History - 17th century
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgements -- 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.
Sommario/riassunto: Bodies 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Bodies and their Spaces  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 94-012-0155-2
1-4237-9090-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811757503321
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Serie: Costerus ; ; new ser., v. 156.