Desire and Dramatic Form in Early Modern England (Paperback)

Acknowledgments; Textual note; Introduction: consummate play; Part I. 'Come ... and Play': Christopher Marlowe, Beside the Point: 1. Genre, gender, and sexuality in 'The Passionate Shepherd' and Tamburlaine; 2. Submitting to history: Edward II; 3. 'True-loves blood': narrative and desire in Hero and Leander; 4. 'Thus with a kiss': a Shakespearean interlude; Part II. Desiring Women in the Seventeenth Century: 5. 'How strangely does himself work to undo him': (male) sexuality in The Revenger's Tragedy; 6. 'My body bestow upon my women': the space of the feminine in The Duchess of Malfi; 7. 'I(t) could not choose but follow': erotic logic in The Changeling; 8. 'Old men's tales': legacies of the father in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore; 9. The passionate shepherdess: the case of Margaret Cavendish; Afterword: for(e)play; Notes; List of works cited; Index.