The performance of pleasure in English Renaissance drama
By: Ronald Huebert.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.; Pleasure in literature.; Aesthetics, Modern -- 16th century.; Aesthetics, Modern -- 17th century.; Renaissance -- England.; Aesthetics, British.; Sex in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-211) and index.
Table of contents: title: Interpreting pleasure; title: Tobacco and boys : Christopher Marlowe; title: A shrew yet honest : Ben Jonson; title: The adverse body : John Marston; title: One wench between them : Thomas Heywood, Francis Beaumont, and John Fletcher; title: Impossible desire : John Webster; title: An art that has no name : Thomas Middleton; title: Endless dreams : John Ford.