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Texts, Sex, and Perversion on the Early Modern Stage
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Francis, James
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Year and Degree
2011, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
Abstract
This thesis attempts a synthesis of bibliographic criticism and queer theory by examining representations of texts as eroticized objects in early modern drama. Through analyses of plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Middleton, and Beaumont & Fletcher, the thesis demonstrates how the stage collapses sex into writing, reading, and bookmaking. Early modern drama breaks down the distinction between the “real” and the “metaphoric” by interlocking its discourses about sex and texts. By locating textual objects in a matrix of eroticized acts of writing and reading, the stage reveals an early modern tendency to organize sex, desire, and pleasure around objects and acts rather than identities.
Committee
James Bromley, PhD (Committee Chair)
Kaara Peterson, PhD (Committee Member)
Elisabeth Hodges, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
54 p.
Subject Headings
Literature
Keywords
Early modern drama
;
history of the book
;
queer theory
;
Shakespeare
;
Marlowe
;
Middleton
;
Beaumont and Fletcher
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Francis, J. (2011).
Texts, Sex, and Perversion on the Early Modern Stage
[Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1309811112
APA Style (7th edition)
Francis, James.
Texts, Sex, and Perversion on the Early Modern Stage.
2011. Miami University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1309811112.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Francis, James. "Texts, Sex, and Perversion on the Early Modern Stage." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1309811112
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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