In Words and Deeds: The Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance TragedyRodopi, 2002 - 296 pàgines Departing from earlier studies which regarded incest as a literary topos or dramatic metaphor foregrounding political, social, or legal issues, Words and Deeds: The Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance Tragedy argues that the presence of incest on the Renaissance stage is a strategy for the enactment of the spectator's tragic experience. Incest is explored neither as a sin nor as a crime, but as an "unspeakable" experience filtered through dramatic words and deeds. The incitement of desire, visual pleasure, and unconscious fantasy, as well as traumatic rejection, pain, and horror, are all aspects of this paradoxical and uncanny experience. Aristotelian theory of tragedy, Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Michel Foucault's notions of the deployment of sexuality and alliance, concur in the analysis of plays where incest is a central or a secondary motif - Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Beaumont and Fletcher's Cupid's Revenge, Webster's The Duchess of Malfi - and others where incest is an effect of language and mise-en-scène - Sackville and Norton's Gorboduc, Shakespeare's King Lear. The variety of topics and the combination of critical perspectives makes In Words and Deeds an attractive book for students and teachers of Renaissance drama, as well as for those with a special interest in psychoanalytic and other new theoretical approaches to the literary text. |
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... structural arrangement of the incest theme at the level of plot , there lies the possibility that we read desire as the unknown - Freud's " das Unbewusste ” – attainable only insofar as it is filtered through language . In this sense ...
... structural arrangement of the incest theme at the level of plot , there lies the possibility that we read desire as the unknown - Freud's " das Unbewusste ” – attainable only insofar as it is filtered through language . In this sense ...
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... structural concern , that is , the establishment of those formal and narrative patterns that shape dramatic plots of incest . These are the following : ( 1 ) Incest is defined in these plays as the sexual attraction or con- summation ...
... structural concern , that is , the establishment of those formal and narrative patterns that shape dramatic plots of incest . These are the following : ( 1 ) Incest is defined in these plays as the sexual attraction or con- summation ...
Pàgina 11
... structural usefulness in compli- cating and unravelling plots ; and ( 2 ) its peculiar economy for probing the moral ... structure and character in the plays is conceived in hierarchical terms : But however incest figures in the plays ...
... structural usefulness in compli- cating and unravelling plots ; and ( 2 ) its peculiar economy for probing the moral ... structure and character in the plays is conceived in hierarchical terms : But however incest figures in the plays ...
Pàgina 12
... Structural Uses " , 145 . 20 Marc Shell , The End of Kinship : ' Measure for Measure ' , Incest , and the Ideal of Universal Siblinghood , Stanford , 1988 , 33 . 21 Ibid . , 79 . 22 Ibid . , 178 . The supremacy of plot serves Shell as a ...
... Structural Uses " , 145 . 20 Marc Shell , The End of Kinship : ' Measure for Measure ' , Incest , and the Ideal of Universal Siblinghood , Stanford , 1988 , 33 . 21 Ibid . , 79 . 22 Ibid . , 178 . The supremacy of plot serves Shell as a ...
Pàgina 13
... structural possibility ( mythos ) , which is materialized in the eradi- cation of incest . This dictates the ... structure , character , and genre . However , three major problems arise from their methods and conclusions . First ...
... structural possibility ( mythos ) , which is materialized in the eradi- cation of incest . This dictates the ... structure , character , and genre . However , three major problems arise from their methods and conclusions . First ...
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Pàgina 154 - Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir. Do you see this ? Look on her, look, her lips, Look there, look there ! [Dies.
Pàgina 8 - The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that -particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.
Pàgina 141 - The barbarous Scythian, Or he that makes his generation messes To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom Be as well neighbour'd, pitied, and reliev'd As thou, my sometime daughter.
Pàgina 141 - Let it be so! thy truth then be thy dower! For, by the sacred radiance of the sun, The mysteries of Hecate and the night; By all the operation of the orbs From whom we do exist and cease to be...
Pàgina 137 - Good my lord, You have begot me, bred me, lov'd me : I .Return those duties back as are right fit, Obey you, love you, and most honour you. Why have my sisters husbands if they say They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty : Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Pàgina 151 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness; so we'll live, // And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And...
Pàgina 128 - It did always seem so to us : but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he values most ; for equalities are so weighed, that curiosity in neither can make choice of cither's moiety.
Pàgina 130 - Tell me, my daughters (Since now we will divest us both of rule, Interest of territory, cares of state), Which of you shall we say doth love us most? That we our largest bounty may extend Where nature doth with merit challenge.
Pàgina 125 - ... the mother herself, the beloved one who is chosen after her pattern, and lastly the Mother Earth who receives him once more.