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The significance of human anatomy to the most physical of art
forms, the theatre, has hitherto been an under-explored topic.
Filling this gap, Christian Billing questions conventional wisdom
regarding the one-sex anatomical model and uses a range of medical
treatises to delineate an emergent two-sex paradigm of human
biology. The impact such a model had on the staging of the human
form in English professional theatre is also explored in appraisals
of: (i) the homo-erotic significance of a two-sex paradigm; (ii)
social and theatrical cross-dressing; (iii) the uses of theatrical
androgyny; (iv) masculine corporality and the representation of
assertive women; and (v) the theatrical poetics of human
dissection. Billing supports cultural and scientific study with
close-readings of Lyly, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Dekker,
Beaumont, Fletcher, and Ford. The book provides a sophisticated and
original analysis of the early modern stage body as a discursive
site in wider debates concerning sexuality and gender.
The significance of human anatomy to the most physical of art
forms, the theatre, has hitherto been an under-explored topic.
Filling this gap, Christian Billing questions conventional wisdom
regarding the one-sex anatomical model and uses a range of medical
treatises to delineate an emergent two-sex paradigm of human
biology. The impact such a model had on the staging of the human
form in English professional theatre is also explored in appraisals
of: (i) the homo-erotic significance of a two-sex paradigm; (ii)
social and theatrical cross-dressing; (iii) the uses of theatrical
androgyny; (iv) masculine corporality and the representation of
assertive women; and (v) the theatrical poetics of human
dissection. Billing supports cultural and scientific study with
close-readings of Lyly, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Dekker,
Beaumont, Fletcher, and Ford. The book provides a sophisticated and
original analysis of the early modern stage body as a discursive
site in wider debates concerning sexuality and gender.
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