Journal•ISSN: 0037-3222
Shakespeare Quarterly
Oxford University Press
About: Shakespeare Quarterly is an academic journal published by Oxford University Press. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Hamlet (place) & Drama. It has an ISSN identifier of 0037-3222. Over the lifetime, 2649 publications have been published receiving 21521 citations.
Topics: Hamlet (place), Drama, Comedy, Folio, Tragedy (event)
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TL;DR: In her absorbing history of this complex era in medicine, Siraisi explores the inner workings of the medical community and illustrates the connections of medicine to both natural philosophy and technical skills.
Abstract: Western Europe supported a highly developed and diverse medical community in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. In her absorbing history of this complex era in medicine, Siraisi explores the inner workings of the medical community and illustrates the connections of medicine to both natural philosophy and technical skills.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that cross-dressing in Renaissance England threatened a normative social order based upon strict principles of hierarchy and subordination, of which women's subordination to man was a chief instance, trumpeted from pulpit, instantiated in law, and acted upon by monarch and commoner alike.
Abstract: How many people cross-dressed in Renaissance England? There is probably no
way empirically to answer such a question. Given biblical prohibitions against
the practice and their frequent repetition from the pulpit and in the prescriptive
literature of the period, one would guess that the number of people who dared
walk the streets of London in the clothes of the other sex was limited. None the
less, there are records of women, in particular, who did so, and who were
punished for their audacity; and from at least 1580 to 1620 preachers and
polemicists kept up a steady attack on the practice. I am going to argue that the
polemics signal a sex-gender system under pressure and that cross-dressing, as
fact and as idea, threatened a normative social order based upon strict principles
of hierarchy and subordination, of which women’s subordination to man was a
chief instance, trumpeted from pulpit, instantiated in law, and acted upon by
monarch and commoner alike.1 I will also argue, however, that the subversive or
transgressive potential of this practice could be and was recuperated in a number
of ways. As with any social practice, its meaning varied with the circumstances
of its occurrence, with the particulars of the institutional or cultural sites of its
enactment, and with the class position of the transgressor. As part of a stage
action, for example, the ideological import of cross-dressing was mediated by all
the conventions of dramatic narrative and Renaissance dramatic production. It
cannot simply be conflated with cross-dressing on the London streets or as part of
a disciplining ritual such as a charivari or skimmington. In what follows I want to
pay attention to the differences among various manifestations of cross-dressing
in Renaissance culture but at the same time to suggest the ways they form an
interlocking grid through which we can read aspects of class and gender struggle
in the period, struggles in which the theater-as I hope to show-played a highly
contradictory role.
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TL;DR: Romance and revision politics and pity property and propriety embodying the author nationalizing the corpus were used in this article to nationalize the corpus of the Corpus of the Bible.
Abstract: Romance and revision politics and pity property and propriety embodying the author nationalizing the corpus.
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