Sex and Satiric Tragedy in Early Modern England
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Author_Gabriel A. Rieger
Baker's Daughter
Baker’s Daughter
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Childless Queen
Danse Macabre
Deed's Creature
Deed’s Creature
early modern medical theory
English Renaissance drama
English Verse Satire
Enseamed Bed
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False Servant
Father Son Relationship
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gender and power dynamics
GreenEyed Monster
Hamlet's Language
Hamlet’s Language
literary obscenity studies
Mad House
Madhouse
Main Plot
Master's Ass
Master’s Ass
Nasty Sty
Pigmalion's Image
Pigmalion’s Image
renaissance
Renaissance Stage
Revenger's Tragedy
revengers
Revenger’s Tragedy
satire
Satiric Aggression
Satiric Tragedy
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Satirist Character
Satirist Figures
sexual discourse analysis
sexual language in Renaissance tragedy
sexualized
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stoicism in literature
Uncleanly Apprehensions
Verse Satire
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781409400295
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Drawing upon recent scholarship in Renaissance studies regarding notions of the body, political, physical and social, this study examines how the satiric tragedians of the English Renaissance employ the languages of sex - including sexual slander, titillation, insinuation and obscenity - in the service of satiric aggression. There is a close association between the genre of satire and sexually descriptive language in the period, author Gabriel Rieger argues, particularly in the ways in which both the genre and the languages embody systems of oppositions. In exploring the various purposes which sexually descriptive language serves for the satiric tragedian, Rieger reviews a broad range of texts, ancient, Renaissance, and contemporary, by satiric tragedians, moralists, medical writers and critics, paying particular attention to the works of William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton and John Webster
Gabriel A. Rieger is an assistant professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Concord University in Athens, West Virginia, where he lives with his wife and daughter
