In Words and Deeds: The Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance TragedyBRILL, 15.11.2021 - 304 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
What for Why and How? | 1 |
Toward a Poetics of Desire | 29 |
Chapter Two The House and the Stage | 63 |
Gorboduc and King Lear | 98 |
Incest as Tragic Spectacle in Stuart Domestic Drama | 169 |
Incestuous Persons | 212 |
Postscript An Explicable Place | 272 |
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In Words and Deeds: The Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance Tragedy Zenón Luis Martínez Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2002 |
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anagnorisis analysis Annabella Aristotelian audience Bacha becomes blood body Boehrer brother catharsis cause character conception conflict constitutes Cordelia critical Cupid's Revenge daughter death demand difference discourse dramatic Duchess of Malfi Duke early modern effect Elizabethan emblem emblematic emotional emphasis added English Renaissance ethos experience fantasy father Ferdinand Ferrex Flamineo Foucault Freud Giovanni Gorboduc Hamlet heart Hippolito Ibid identity incest incestuous desire Jacques Lacan King Lear kinship Lacan language Lear's Leucippus literary Literature Livia Marcello marriage maternal meaning mimesis mise-en-scène moral mother motif mythos narrative object Oedipus Oedipus complex Oedipus the King opsis passion play play's pleasure plot poetics political psychoanalytic Renaissance drama representation repression Revenger's Tragedy ritual role scene sense sexuality Shakespeare sister social spectacle spectator spectator's stage structure symbolic order teleology theatrical theory tion Tis Pity tragic trans uncanny unconscious Videna Vindice Vindice's Whore Women Beware Women words