Sex and Satiric Tragedy in Early Modern England (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama)

by Gabriel A . Rieger (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $163.46

  Drawing upon the scholarship in Renaissance studies regarding notions of the body, political, physical and social, this study examines how the satiric tragedians of the English Renaissance employ the languages of sex - including sexual slander, titillation, insinuation and obscenity - in the service of satiric aggression.