Lelia's Kiss : : Imagining Gender, Sex, and Marriage in Italian Renaissance Comedy / / Laura Giannetti.
Lelia's Kiss analyzes gender roles, sexuality, and marriage in the Italian Renaissance through the lens of a large number of comedies from the period, ranging well beyond the traditional canon. Focusing on the social and cultural scripts found within these comedies, Laura Giannetti offers a new...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Lelia's Kiss and Renaissance Comedy
- 1. Women in Men's Clothing: Female Cross- Dressing Plays and the Construction of Feminine Identity
- 2. Woman with Woman: 'Ma che potrà succedermi se io donna amo una Donna?'
- 3. Men in Women's Clothing: Male Cross- Dressing Plays and the Construction of Masculine Identity
- 4. Pedants, Candlemakers, and Boys: Sodomy and Comedy
- 5. The Playing of Matrimony
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index