Sexual Types: Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley

by Mario DiGangi

Sexual types on the early modern stage are at once strange and familiar, associated with a range of "unnatural" or "monstrous" sexual and gender practices, yet familiar because readily identifiable as types: recognizable figures of literary imagination and social fantasy. From the many found in early modern culture, Mario DiGangi here focuses on six types that reveal in particularly compelling ways, both individually and collectively, how sexual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812243617
• ISBN13: 9780812243611
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"