The Performance of Pleasure in English Renaissance Drama

Offering new and theatrically informed readings of plays by a broad range of Renaissance dramatists - including Marlowe, Jonson, Marston, Webster, Middleton and Ford - this new book addresses the question of pleasure: both erotic pleasure as represented on stage and aesthetic pleasure as experienced by readers and spectators. Some of the issues raised (the distribution of pleasure by gender, the notion of consent) intersect with feminist reinterpretations of Renaissance culture.

RONALD HUEBERT is Professor of English at Dalhousie University and Carnegie Professor at the University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the current editor of The Dalhousie Review, the author of John Ford: Baroque English Dramatist and the editor of James Shirley's The Lady of Pleasure in the Revels series.