system, crisis and transformation in early modern theatre /
First Statement of Responsibility
[Russell West-Pavlolv].
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Rodopi,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (vii, 253 pages).
SERIES
Series Title
Costerus ;
Volume Designation
new ser., v. 156
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-245) and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Bodies and their spaces.
International Standard Book Number
9042016884
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English drama-- 17th century-- History and criticism.
English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism.