Erotic Beasts and Social Monsters: Shakespeare, Jonson, and Comic AndrogynyUniversity of Delaware Press, 1995 - 237 páginas The voluminous contemporary critical work on English Renaissance androgyny/transvestism has not fully uncovered the ancient Greek and Roman roots of the gender controversy. This work argues that the variant Renaissance views on the androgyne's symbolism are, in fact, best understood with reference to classical representations of the double-sexed or gender-baffled figures, and with the classical merging of the figure with images of beasts and monsters. |
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... female , in poetry , narrative , and drama this was almost never the case . When the androgyne or hermaphrodite did possess biological maleness and femaleness , it alternated back and forth between male and female incarnations . ( This ...
... female , in poetry , narrative , and drama this was almost never the case . When the androgyne or hermaphrodite did possess biological maleness and femaleness , it alternated back and forth between male and female incarnations . ( This ...
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... female represents mythic androgyny as a force that realizes itself in time , through the gradual progress of a culture , through human procreation , or through the growth of a relational unit . Like the alternating male - female , the ...
... female represents mythic androgyny as a force that realizes itself in time , through the gradual progress of a culture , through human procreation , or through the growth of a relational unit . Like the alternating male - female , the ...
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... female principle is negative , like the blank space that defines a posi- tive pictorial image . " This female " blankness , " or " absence , " Rackin claims , " can be figured by the yin - yang diagram that symbolizes the relation of ...
... female principle is negative , like the blank space that defines a posi- tive pictorial image . " This female " blankness , " or " absence , " Rackin claims , " can be figured by the yin - yang diagram that symbolizes the relation of ...
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... female " and " feminine . " And again , the reason is that the texts I am analyzing so conflate them . I use these terms inter- changeably where my discussion is actually centering on the fact of that conflation : that is , where I am ...
... female " and " feminine . " And again , the reason is that the texts I am analyzing so conflate them . I use these terms inter- changeably where my discussion is actually centering on the fact of that conflation : that is , where I am ...
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... female . " Thus , rather than making the assumption that " male " and " female " refer to biological fact , while " masculine " and " feminine " refer to cultural construction , the reader may take it that all of these terms where they ...
... female . " Thus , rather than making the assumption that " male " and " female " refer to biological fact , while " masculine " and " feminine " refer to cultural construction , the reader may take it that all of these terms where they ...
Contenido
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Mazes Water Dolphins Beasts The Shakespearean Androgynes Defiance of Closure | 68 |
Jonson Satire and the Empty Hermaphrodite | 105 |
Experimental Androgynes Falstaff Ursula and The New Inn | 136 |
That Reason Wonder May Diminish The Androgyne and the Theater Wars | 170 |
Epilogue | 198 |
Notes | 203 |
Bibliography | 224 |
Index | 233 |
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Erotic Beasts and Social Monsters: Shakespeare, Jonson, and Comic Androgyny Grace Tiffany Vista de fragmentos - 1995 |
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Página 170 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Página 129 - The third requisite in our poet, or maker, is imitation, to be able to convert the substance or riches of another poet to his own use, to make choice of one excellent man above the rest, and so to follow him till he grow very he, or so like him as the copy may be mistaken for the principal...
Página 142 - By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made ye. Why, hear you, my masters: was it for me to kill the heir-apparent ? should I turn upon the true prince? why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules: but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter; I was now a coward on instinct.
Página 58 - The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Página 170 - Shakespeare puts them all down, aye, and Ben Jonson too. O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving the Poets a pill, but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made him...
Página 172 - Few of the university pen plays well; they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis, and talk too much of Proserpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down, aye, and Ben Jonson too.
Página 114 - Whence should this flood of passion, trow, take head ? ha ! Best dream no longer of this running humour, For fear I sink; the violence of the stream Already hath transported me so far, That I can feel no ground at all: but soft—- Oh, 'tis our water-bearer: somewhat has crost him now.
Página 216 - he had many quarrels with Marston, beat him and took his pistol from him, wrote his Poetaster on him ; the beginning of them were that Marston represented him on the stage in his youth given to venery.
Página 71 - Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem: So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart; Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.