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Download or read book The Bedtrick written by Wendy Doniger and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger." Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and popular storytelling. In a tour that runs from Shakespeare to Hollywood and from Abraham Lincoln to Casanova, the erudite and irrepressible Wendy Doniger shows us the variety, danger, and allure of the "bedtrick," or what it means to wake up with a stranger. The Bedtrick brings together hundreds of stories from all over the world, from the earliest recorded Hindu and Hebrew texts to the latest item in the Weekly World News, to show the hilariously convoluted sexual scrapes that people manage to get themselves into and out of. Here you will find wives who accidentally commit adultery with their own husbands. You will read Lincoln's truly terrible poem about a bedtrick. You will learn that in Hong Kong the film The Crying Game was retitled Oh No! My Girlfriend Has a Penis. And that President Clinton was not the first man to be identified by an idiosyncratic organ. At the bottom of these wonderful stories, ancient myths, and historical anecdotes lie the dynamics of sex and gender, power and identity. Why can't people tell the difference in the dark? Can love always tell the difference between one lover and another? And what kind of truth does sex tell? Funny, sexy, and engaging, The Bedtrick is a masterful work of energetic storytelling and dazzling scholarship. Give it to your spouse and your lover.
Book Synopsis Twins in Early Modern English Drama and Shakespeare by : Daisy Murray
Download or read book Twins in Early Modern English Drama and Shakespeare written by Daisy Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the early modern understanding of twinship through new readings of plays, informed by discussions of twins appearing in such literature as anatomy tracts, midwifery manuals, monstrous birth broadsides, and chapbooks. The book contextualizes such dramatic representations of twinship, investigating contemporary discussions about twins in medical and popular literature and how such dialogues resonate with the twin characters appearing on the early modern stage. Garofalo demonstrates that, in this period, twin births were viewed as biologically aberrant and, because of this classification, authors frequently attempt to explain the phenomenon in ways which call into question the moral and constitutional standing of both the parents and the twins themselves. In line with current critical studies on pregnancy and the female body, discussions of twin births reveal a distrust of the mother and the processes surrounding twin conception; however, a corresponding suspicion of twins also emerges, which monstrous birth pamphlets exemplify. This book analyzes the representation of twins in early modern drama in light of this information, moving from tragedies through to comedies. This progression demonstrates how the dramatic potential inherent in the early modern understanding of twinship is capitalized on by playwrights, as negative ideas about twins can be seen transitioning into tragic and tragicomic depictions of twinship. However, by building toward a positive, comic representation of twins, the work additionally suggests an alternate interpretation of twinship in this period, which appreciates and celebrates twins because of their difference. The volume will be of interest to those studying Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in relation to the History of Emotions, the Body, and the Medical Humanities.
Book Synopsis The Bed-trick in English Renaissance Drama by : Marliss C. Desens
Download or read book The Bed-trick in English Renaissance Drama written by Marliss C. Desens and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: None of these assumptions has been tested against the evidence of the surviving plays from the period - an oversight that the present study seeks to remedy.
Book Synopsis Essays on the "Lancelot" of Yale 229 by : Elizabeth Moore Willingham
Download or read book Essays on the "Lancelot" of Yale 229 written by Elizabeth Moore Willingham and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brepols' multiple-volume series The Lancelot Prose of Yale 229 includes illustrated text editions of l'Agrauains, La Queste del Saint Graal, and La Mort le Roi Artu, along with a collection of essays based on the thirteenth-century manuscript, Yale 229, housed at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. An additional collection of essays, a guide to the decoration of the manuscript, and a searchable corpus text are projected for the series.
Book Synopsis The Name and Nature of Tragicomedy by : Verna A. Foster
Download or read book The Name and Nature of Tragicomedy written by Verna A. Foster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on European tragicomedy from the early modern period to the theatre of the absurd, Verna Foster here argues for the independence of tragicomedy as a genre that perceives and communicates human experience differently from the various forms of tragedy, comedy, and the drame (serious drama that is neither comic nor tragic). Foster posits that, in the sense of the dramaturgical and emotional fusion of tragic and comic elements to create a distinguishable new genre, tragicomedy has emerged only twice in the history of drama. She argues that tragicomedy first emerged and was controversial in the Renaissance; and that it has in modern times replaced tragedy itself as the most serious and moving of all dramatic genres. In the first section of the book, the author analyzes the name 'tragicomedy' and the genre's problems of identity; then goes on to explore early modern tragicomedies by Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Massinger. A transitional chapter addresses cognate genres. The final section of the book focuses on modern tragicomedies by Ibsen, Chekhov, Synge, O'Casey, Williams, Ionesco, Beckett and Pinter. By exploring dramaturgical similarities between early modern and modern tragicomedies, Foster demonstrates the persistence of tragicomedy's generic markers and provides a more precise conceptual framework for the genre than has so far been available.
Download or read book Symbolism written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shakespearean Criticism by : Michelle Lee
Download or read book Shakespearean Criticism written by Michelle Lee and published by Shakespearean Criticism. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plays, theme or focus of this volume includes: Measure For Measure Romeo and Juliet Time
Author :Thomas M. Greene Publisher :Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) ISBN 13 : Total Pages :472 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (321 download)
Book Synopsis Creative Imitation by : Thomas M. Greene
Download or read book Creative Imitation written by Thomas M. Greene and published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). This book was released on 1992 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Sewage Disposal in Kansas by : Francis Montgomery Veatch
Download or read book Sewage Disposal in Kansas written by Francis Montgomery Veatch and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hollow Saints by : Carolyn Elizabeth Brown
Download or read book The Hollow Saints written by Carolyn Elizabeth Brown and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Changeling by : Thomas Middleton
Download or read book The Changeling written by Thomas Middleton and published by . This book was released on 1653 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Changeling is a popular Renaissance tragedy in which the relationship between money, sex, and power is explored. Frequently performed and studied in University courses, it is a key text in the New Mermaids series.
Book Synopsis Allgemeines englisch-deutsches und deutsch-englisches wörterbuch by : Johann Gottfried Flügel
Download or read book Allgemeines englisch-deutsches und deutsch-englisches wörterbuch written by Johann Gottfried Flügel and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bed and Bath Book by : Terence Conran
Download or read book The Bed and Bath Book written by Terence Conran and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Measure for Measure by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book Measure for Measure written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This modernized text, newly edited from the First Folio (1623), provides a complete record of textual notes and ample commentary. Concise and helpful appendices discuss language and rhetoric, sources and adaptations, the play in performance, and characters. (Plays/Drama)
Download or read book The 5 Second Rule written by Mel Robbins and published by Savio Republic . This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout your life, you've had parents, coaches, teachers, friends, and mentors who have pushed you to be better than your excuses and bigger than your fears. What if the secret to having the confidence and courage to enrich your life and work is simply knowing how to push yourself? Using the science habits, riveting stories and surprising facts from some of the most famous moments in history, art and business, Mel Robbins will explain the power of a "push moment." Then, she'll give you one simple tool you can use to become your greatest self. It take just five seconds to use this tool, and every time you do, you'll be in great company. More than 8 million people have watched Mel's TEDx Talk, and executives inside of the world's largest brands are using the tool to increase productivity, collaboration, and engagement. In The 5 Second Rule, you'll discover it takes just five seconds to: Become confident Break the habit of procrastination and self-doubt Beat fear and uncertainty Stop worrying and feel happier Share your ideas with courage The 5 Second Rule is a simple, one-size-fits-all solution for the one problem we all face—we hold ourselves back. The secret isn't knowing what to do—it's knowing how to make yourself do it. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial}
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