Time and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage

by Sarah Lewis

Book Overview

This book analyses the cultural and theatrical intersections of early modern temporal concepts and gendered identities. Through close readings of the works of Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood and others, across the genres of domestic comedy, city comedy and revenge tragedy, Sarah Lewis shows how temporal tropes are used to delineate masculinity and femininity on the early modern stage, and vice versa. She sets out the ways in which the temporal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108842194
• ISBN13: 9781108842198
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"