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Cookie akzeptierenUrsula A. Potter
The Unruly Womb in Early Modern English Drama
- Medieval Institute Publications
- 2019
- Gebunden
- 276 Seiten
- ISBN 9781580443708
This study provides an accessible, informative and entertaining introduction to women¿s sexual health as presented on the early modern stage, and how dramatists coded for it. Beginning with the rise of green sickness (the disease of virgins) from its earliest reference in drama in the 1560s, Ursula Potter traces a continuing fascination with the womb by dramatists through to the oxymoron of the chaste sex debate in the 1640s. She analyzes how playwrights employed visual and verbal clues to identify the sexual status of female characters to engage their audiences with popular concepts of women¿s health; and how they satirized the notion of the womb¿s insatiable
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