Erotic Beasts and Social Monsters: Shakespeare, Jonson, and Comic AndrogynyThe voluminous contemporary critical work on English Renaissance androgyny/transvestism has not fully uncovered the ancient Greek and Roman roots of the gender controversy. This work argues that the variant Renaissance views on the androgyne's symbolism are, in fact, best understood with reference to classical representations of the double-sexed or gender-baffled figures, and with the classical merging of the figure with images of beasts and monsters. |
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... Shakespeare's experiment with the satirical androgyne occurred in the first half of his dramatic career . This chapter will provide a read- ing of The Merry Wives of Windsor as Shakespeare's single authentic experiment in the developing ...
... Shakespeare's experiment with the satirical androgyne occurred in the first half of his dramatic career . This chapter will provide a read- ing of The Merry Wives of Windsor as Shakespeare's single authentic experiment in the developing ...
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... Shakespeare and Jonson , p . 5. McDonald also notes ( p . 192n ) a claim made by Nicholas Rowe in his 1709 biography of Shakespeare that Shakespeare had personally " recommended " the production of Jonson's play . 6. Anne Barton , Ben ...
... Shakespeare and Jonson , p . 5. McDonald also notes ( p . 192n ) a claim made by Nicholas Rowe in his 1709 biography of Shakespeare that Shakespeare had personally " recommended " the production of Jonson's play . 6. Anne Barton , Ben ...
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Shakespeare, Jonson, and Comic Androgyny Grace Tiffany. Introduction to The Merry Wives of Windsor . In William Shakespeare , The Riverside Shakespeare , edited by G. Blakemore Evans , 286-89 . Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1974 . Bate ...
Shakespeare, Jonson, and Comic Androgyny Grace Tiffany. Introduction to The Merry Wives of Windsor . In William Shakespeare , The Riverside Shakespeare , edited by G. Blakemore Evans , 286-89 . Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1974 . Bate ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Two Forms of Classical | 23 |
Jonson Satire and | 105 |
Copyright | |
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