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Eroticism on the Renaissance stage : transcendence, desire, and the limits of the visible

In this 1998 book, Celia Daileader explores paradoxes of eroticism on the early modern English stage, where women were materially absent but symbolically central. She draws an analogy with the suppression of religious drama in England and draws together questions about the bodies - of Christ and of woman - banished from the stage.
Print Book, English, 1998
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1998
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780521623797, 0521623790
38067622
List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Entrances: sex, women, God; 2. Offstage sex and female desire; 3. Body beneath/body beyond; 4. (Off)Staging the sacred; 5. Obscene and unseen; 6. Ejaculations and conclusions: toward an erotic theoretics; Appendices; Notes; Index.