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Playing with gender : a Renaissance pursuit

Title

Playing with gender : a Renaissance pursuit / edited by Jean R. Brink, Maryanne C. Horowitz, and Allison P. Coudert.

Format

Musical Score

Published/Produced

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1991.

Physical description

xxiv, 142 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Witchcraft and adultery in Otello / Nancy Gutierrez
• Thomas Middleton's antifeminist sentiment in A mad world, my masters / Fumiko Takase
• The only good Amazon is a converted Amazon : the woman warrior and christianity in the Amadís cycle / Alison Taufer
• Amazonian tyranny : Spenser's Radigund and diachronic mimesis / Susanne Woods
• Amazons and aristocrats : the function of Pyrocles' Amazon role in Sidney's revised Arcadia / Margaret M. Sullivan
• The spiritual eroticism of Leone's Hermaphrodite / Naomi Yavneh
• The bisexual portrait of Francis I : Fontainebleau, Castiglione, and the tone of courtly mythology / Raymond B. Waddington.

ISBN

0252017641 (alk. paper) 9780252017643 (alk. paper)

Subject

Sex role in literature. European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism. Amazons in literature. Gender identity in literature. Intersexuality in literature. Metamorphosis in literature.

Local subject

Renaissance.

Related name/work

Brink, J. R. Horowitz, Maryanne Cline, 1945- Coudert, Allison, 1941-