Staging Disgust (Elements in Shakespeare Performance) - Softcover

Panek, Jennifer

 
9781009379823: Staging Disgust (Elements in Shakespeare Performance)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1009379828 ISBN 13: 9781009379823
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2024

Synopsis

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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1009379828
ISBN 13 
9781009379823
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
106