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Staging Disgust - Jennifer Panek

Staging Disgust

Rape, Shame, and Performance in Shakespeare and Middleton

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
106 Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-37982-3 (ISBN)
CHF 29,65 inkl. MwSt
This Element turns to the stage to ask a simple question about gender and affect: what causes the shame of the early modern rape victim? Beneath honour codes and problematic assumptions about consent, the answer lies in an affect even more intractable than shame: disgust.
This Element turns to the stage to ask a simple question about gender and affect: what causes the shame of the early modern rape victim? Beneath honour codes and problematic assumptions about consent, the answer lies in affect, disgust. It explores both the textual "performance" of affect, how literary language works to evoke emotions and the ways disgust can work in theatrical performance. Here Shakespeare's poem The Rape of Lucrece is the classic paradigm of sexual pollution and shame, where disgust's irrational logic of contamination leaves the raped wife in a permanent state of uncleanness that spreads from body to soul. Staging Disgust offers alternatives to this depressing trajectory: Middleton's Women Beware Women and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus perform disgust with a difference, deploying the audience's revulsion to challenge the assumption that a raped woman should “naturally” feel intolerable shame.

1. Introduction: literature, affect, and performance; 2. Early modern sexual pollution; 3. The rape of Lucrece; 4. Women beware women; 5. Titus Andronicus; 6. Coda; Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Elements in Shakespeare Performance
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-009-37982-8 / 1009379828
ISBN-13 978-1-009-37982-3 / 9781009379823
Zustand Neuware
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