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The significance of human anatomy to the most physical of art forms, the theatre, has hitherto been an under-explored topic. Filling this gap, Christian Billing questions conventional wisdom regarding the one-sex anatomical model and uses a range of medical treatises to delineate an emergent two-sex paradigm of human biology. The impact such a model had on the staging of the human form in English professional theatre is also explored in appraisals of: the homo-erotic significance of a two-sex paradigm; social and theatrical cross-dressing; the uses of theatrical androgyny; masculine corporality and the representation of assertive women; and the theatrical poetics of human dissection. Billing supports cultural and scientific study with close-readings of Lyly, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, Beaumont, Fletcher, and Ford. The book provides a sophisticated and original analysis of the early modern stage body as a discursive site in wider debates concerning sexuality and gender.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Masculinity, Corporality and the English Stage 1580-1635
• Author: Christian M. Billing
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780754656517
• ISBN: 0754656519
• ID: 04680255
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 620 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. November 2008

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