Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, authorship, and sexualities in Renaissance drama (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 14)

by Jeffrey Masten

Textual 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.

Genres: Shakespeare

240 pages, Paperback

First published February 20, 1997

Reviews

[homoness]

a beautiful and subtle study of renaissance drama. masten's writing is fundamentally interstitial, evoking ideas through careful punctuations. A certain vis negativa perhaps. enjoyed in particular second segment on gender systems and collaboration. His theses re authorship are hardly contentious, but good to have it spelt out here. Would also recommend reading his article on the fundament. am looking forward to his newest book.

[Lobo]

Doktorat in Progress.