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Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama

Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama

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ISBN10: 0801421896
ISBN13: 9780801421891
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Sep 22 1988
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage, Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and transforming them.

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