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082			_a822.3093538 _bERO
245	1	0	_aErotic politics: desire on the renaissance stage
260			_aLondon _bRoutledge _c1992
300			_aix,198p.
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_aIdentifying the stage as a primary site for erotic display, these essays take eroticism in Renaissance culture as a paradigm for issues of sexuality and identity in early modern culture. Contributors examine how the Renaissance stage functioned as a decoder for erotic experience, both reinforcing and subverting expected sexual behaviour. They argue that the dynamics of theatrical eroticism served to deconstruct gender definitions, leaving conventional categories of sexuality blurred, confused - or absent. In seeking to reposition the conventions and subversions of gender and desire in terms of one another, these essays open up an attractive and distinctive perspective in cultural debate.
650			_aEnglish drama-history and criticism
650			_aPolitical plays, English
650			_aDesire in literature
650			_aGender identity in literature
650			_aEnglish drama--Early modern and Elizabethan
650			_aPsychoanalysis and literature
650			_aRenaissance
650			_aSex role in literature
650	0		_aEnglish literature
700			_aZimmerman, Susan, ed.
942			_cBK
999			_c12448 _d12448