system, crisis and transformation in early modern theatre /
[Russell West-Pavlolv].
New York :
Rodopi,
2006.
1 online resource (vii, 253 pages).
Costerus ;
new ser., v. 156
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-245) and index.
Bodies and their Spaces: System, Crisis and Transformation in Early Modern Theatre explores the emergence of the distinctively modern "gender system" at the close of the early modern period. The book investigates shifts in the gendered spaces assigned to men and women in the "public" and "private" domains and their changing modes of interconnection; in concert with these social spaces it examines the emergence of biologically based notions of sex and a novel sense of individual subjectivity. These parallel and linked transformations converged in the development of a new gender system which mor.
Bodies and their spaces.
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English drama-- 17th century-- History and criticism.
English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism.