Renaissance Configurations

Voices, Bodies, Spaces, 1580-1690

By: G. Mcmullan (Editor)

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Preface: Renaissance Configurations; G. McMullan PART I: TURNING THE KEY 'Infinite Riches in a Little Room': Marlowe and the Aesthetics of the Closet; J. Knowles Shakespeare 'Creepes into the Women's Closets about Bedtime': Women Reading in a Room of Their Own; S. Roberts 'A Book, and Solitariness': Melancholia Gender and Literary Subjectivity in Mary Wroth's Urania ; H. Hackett PART II: DESIRING DIFFERENCE Lyly and Lesbianism: Mysteries of the Closet in Sappho and Phao ; M. Pincombe 'With Phoebus' Amorous Pinches Black': the Desirability of Difference in Early Modern Culture; K Chedgzoy A Rose for Emilia: Collaborative Relations in The Two Noble Kinsmen ; G. Kinsmen PART III: NAMING/LOCATING Space for the Self: Place, Persona, and Self-Projection in The Comedy of Errors and Pericles ; A. Piesse Calling Things By Their Names': Troping Prostitution, Politics, and The Dutch Courtesan ; M. Thornton Burnett PART IV: VOICING THE PAST Spectres and Sisters: Mary Sidney and the `Perennial Puzzle' of Renaissance Women's Writing; S. Trill What Echo Says in Seventeenth-Century Women's Poetry: Wroth, Behn; S.J. Wiseman Restoring the Renaissance: Margaret Cavendish and Katherine Philips; R. Ballaster Afterword; A. Thompson

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Notes on the Contributors	p. vii
Preface to the First Paperback Edition	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Preface: Renaissance Configurations	p. xv
Turning the Key
'Infinite riches in a little room': Marlowe and the Aesthetics of the Closet	p. 3
Shakespeare 'creepes into the womens closets about bedtime': Women Reading in a Room of Their Own	p. 30
'A book, and solitariness': Melancholia, Gender and Literary Subjectivity in Mary Wroth's Urania	p. 64
Desiring Difference
Lyly and Lesbianism: Mysteries of the Closet in Sappho and Phao	p. 89
Blackness Yields to Beauty: Desirability and Difference in Early Modern Culture	p. 108
A Rose for Emilia: Collaborative Relations in The Two Noble Kinsmen	p. 129
Naming/Locating
Space for the Self: Place, Persona and Self-Projection in The Comedy of Errors and Pericles	p. 151
Calling 'things by their right names': Troping Prostitution, Politics and The Dutch Courtesan	p. 171
Voicing the Past
Spectres and Sisters: Mary Sidney and the 'Perennial Puzzle' of Renaissance Women's Writing	p. 191
What Echo Says: Echo in Seventeenth-Century Women's Poetry: Wroth, Behn	p. 212
Restoring the Renaissance: Margaret Cavendish and Katherine Philips	p. 234
Afterword	p. 253
Index	p. 257
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