The bed-trick in English Renaissance drama explorations in gender, sexuality, and power
The Bed-Trick in English Renaissance Drama provides the first detailed examination of this convention
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Univ. of Delaware Press u.a.
1994
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| Zusammenfassung: | The Bed-Trick in English Renaissance Drama provides the first detailed examination of this convention While most critical discussions focus exclusively on Shakespeare's use of the bed-trick in Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well, this study, written from a feminist perspective and based on an analysis of more than two hundred and fifty plays, places the bed-trick in its historical and theatrical context in order to challenge widely held critical assumptions about its theatrical history on the English Renaissance stage. It has been considered a comic convention, a mere device to complicate and resolve a plot, or the convention by which unwary men are entrapped into marriage by scheming females None of these assumptions has been tested against the evidence of the surviving plays from the period - an oversight that the present study seeks to remedy |
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| Beschreibung: | Teilw. zugl.: Los Angeles, Univ., Diss. |
| Beschreibung: | 175 S. |
| ISBN: | 0874134765 |