Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama

by Madhavi Menon

In Wanton Words, Madhavi Menon intimately and expertly couples classical and Renaissance handbooks of rhetoric with canonical Renaissance plays and demonstrates their shared propensity to speak about sex - often transgressive sex - in the same instance that they speak about the workings of language.

While other studies of rhetoric have confined their analyses to local questions of interpretive interest, Menon introduces rhetoric into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802088376
• ISBN13: 9780802088376
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher