Textual Intercourse Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance Drama |
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| Author:
| Masten, Jeffrey |
| Contribution by:
| Barton, Anne
Dollimore, Jonathan
Garber, Marjorie
Goldberg, Jonathan
Holland, Peter
McLuskie, Kate
Orgel, Stephen
Vickers, Nancy |
| Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-57260-6 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1997 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $120.00 |
Book Description:
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Textual Intercourse brings together literary criticism, theatre history, the study of printed books, and gender studies, to show how the writing of Renaissance drama was conceptualised in the languages of sex, gender, and eroticism. Jeffrey Masten argues that the plays of Shakespeare and others, and the way in which those plays were first printed, illustrates a shift from a model of collaboration to one of singular authorship. Using methods attuned to sexuality and gender, Masten...
More DescriptionTextual Intercourse brings together literary criticism, theatre history, the study of printed books, and gender studies, to show how the writing of Renaissance drama was conceptualised in the languages of sex, gender, and eroticism. Jeffrey Masten argues that the plays of Shakespeare and others, and the way in which those plays were first printed, illustrates a shift from a model of collaboration to one of singular authorship. Using methods attuned to sexuality and gender, Masten illuminates questions of authorship and intellectual property.