Drawing on feminist and historical criticism, Karen Bamford examines the use of sexual assault in a wide range of Jacobean drama, including Shakespeare's "Pericles", "Measure for Measure" and "Cymbeline", Middleton's "The Revenger's Tragedy" and Heywood's "Rape of Lucrece". She explores the verbal and stage imagery that is used to dramatize the threat to chastity the scapegoating of the victim, who is both sanctified and demonized and the tension between overt values and implicit exploitation of sexual assault as erotic ...
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Drawing on feminist and historical criticism, Karen Bamford examines the use of sexual assault in a wide range of Jacobean drama, including Shakespeare's "Pericles", "Measure for Measure" and "Cymbeline", Middleton's "The Revenger's Tragedy" and Heywood's "Rape of Lucrece". She explores the verbal and stage imagery that is used to dramatize the threat to chastity the scapegoating of the victim, who is both sanctified and demonized and the tension between overt values and implicit exploitation of sexual assault as erotic entertainment. What emerges is an early modern definition of chastity as a specifically physical state, unrelated to spiritual purity and the woman's consent or lack of consent to sexual intercourse. While chastity is a woman's chief virtue, it is beyond her moral control, and Jacobean drama repeatedly embeds the assumption that the woman has brought the assault upon herself.
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Seller's Description:
This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 450grams, ISBN: 0333915291.
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Good in Good jacket. Size: 5x0x8; Palgrave MacMillan, 2000; first edition with full number line; x, 237pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards also very good; titling remains bright and bold. Jacket shows corner and edgewear, light tearing at top corners and tail of spine, a few abrasions. Text shows pencil markings in chapter five and on rear endpaper. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
