Naslov
Current Commodities: Figurations of Gelding in Early English Drama

Autori
Lupić, Ivan

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, ostalo, znanstveni

Skup
Exploring Early Modern Masculinity, CUNY Graduate Center

Mjesto i datum
Sjedinjene Američke Države, 30.04.2010

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Masculinity ; early modern drama ; castration

Sažetak
The nervous theme of gelding or castration emerges in a number of early English plays, on the one hand as a source of anxiety, on the other as a vehicle of transformation. As opposed to similar structural tropes—most notably religious and gender conversion —gelding seldom occupies the center of dramatic interest ; rather, it habitually haunts the margins of dramatic action. More often than not it is in fact closely intertwined with the discourses of religion and gender in a fashion that could best be described as complementary. What I demonstrate in this paper is that the tropes of gelding, like those of gender and religious conversion, are also deeply immersed in and partly determined by the discourses of commodity and trade which permeate early English drama and within which notions of masculinity were carefully constructed, imaginatively analyzed, and occasionally contested. By undertaking associative readings of several particularly resonant moments where the threat of castration is dramatized (Heywood, Shakespeare, Massinger), I describe the specific functions this threat had in the strange medleys of fiction and fact that were exhibited on the stages of Elizabethan and Jacobean playhouses.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Kazališna umjetnost (scenske i medijske umjetnosti), Književnost

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