Wanton Words : : Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama / / 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....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreplay
- 1. Setting the Stage: Metaphor
- 2. Performance Anxiety: Metonymy, Richard II, The Roaring Girl
- 3. First Night: Metalepsis, Romeo and Juliet, All's Well that Ends Well
- 4. Cast in Order of Appearance: Catachresis, Othello, King John
- 5. Encore! Allegory, Volpone, The Tempest
- After Words: Henry VIII and the Ends of History
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index