Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance DramaTextual Intercourse brings together literary criticism, theater history, the study of printed books, and gender studies, to show how the writing of Renaissance drama was conceptualized in the languages of sex, gender, and eroticism. Jeffrey Masten argues that the plays of Shakespeare and others, and the way in which those plays were first printed, illustrates a shift from a model of collaboration to one of singular authorship. Using methods attuned to sexuality and gender, Masten illuminates questions of authorship and intellectual property. |
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Contents
Seeing double collaboration and the interpretation of Renaissance drama | 12 |
Between gentlemen homoeroticism collaboration and the discourse of friendship | 28 |
Representing authority patriarchalism absolutism and the author on stage | 63 |
Reproducing works dramatic quartos and folios in the seventeenth century | 113 |
Mistris corrivall Margaret Cavendishs dramatic production | 156 |
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Page 1 - In the same Grave Fletcher was buried, here Lies the Stage-Poet, Philip Massinger. Playes they did write together; were great friends, And now one grave includes them in their ends. So whom on earth nothing did part, beneath Here (in their Fames) they lie, in spight of death.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance Drama Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture |
| Authors | Jeffrey Masten, Masten Jeffrey |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0521589207, 9780521589208 |
| Length | 223 pages |
| Subjects | › › Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Drama |
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