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• catalog abstract "The Bed-Trick in English Renaissance Drama provides the first detailed examination of this convention. While most critical discussions focus exclusively on Shakespeare's use of the bed-trick in Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well, this study, written from a feminist perspective and based on an analysis of more than two hundred and fifty plays, places the bed-trick in its historical and theatrical context in order to challenge widely held critical assumptions about its theatrical history on the English Renaissance stage. It has been considered a comic convention, a mere device to complicate and resolve a plot, or the convention by which unwary men are entrapped into marriage by scheming females. 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. After exploring the convention's use in nondramatic Renaissance literature and its emergence on the stage in the 1590s, Marliss Desens examines the sociological and psychological implications of the bed-trick in regard to matters of marriage, male fantasies, and overt violence, thereby decentering the patriarchal perspective from which the convention has traditionally been viewed. Critical discussions of this convention, the author argues, have been so dominated by androcentric values that critics, both male and female, have often - consciously or unconsciously - overlooked the violence inherent in the bed-trick. No critical discussions have ever identified rape as lying at the heart of the bed-trick even though the basic action of the bed-trick clearly shows that at least one partner is always physically and emotionally violated. While that partner may have chosen sexual involvement, he or she has not chosen it with the person unwittingly embraced in the dark. The bed-trick, by depicting betrayal on the most intimate level, forces us to examine some of our own views on gender, sexuality, and the amount of power any person, whether male or female, may acceptably exercise over another.".
• catalog contributor b4933346.
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description "1. The Bed-Trick in Nondramatic Literature -- 2. The Theatrical Ancestry and Emergence of the Bed-Trick -- 3. The Bed-Trick in Matters of Marriage -- 4. The Bed-Trick as a Manifestation of Male Fantasies -- 5. The Violent Bed-Tricks of Tragicomedy and Tragedy -- Appendix: A Quick Overview of the Bed-Tricks of English Renaissance Drama.".
• catalog description "After exploring the convention's use in nondramatic Renaissance literature and its emergence on the stage in the 1590s, Marliss Desens examines the sociological and psychological implications of the bed-trick in regard to matters of marriage, male fantasies, and overt violence, thereby decentering the patriarchal perspective from which the convention has traditionally been viewed.".
• catalog description "Critical discussions of this convention, the author argues, have been so dominated by androcentric values that critics, both male and female, have often - consciously or unconsciously - overlooked the violence inherent in the bed-trick. No critical discussions have ever identified rape as lying at the heart of the bed-trick even though the basic action of the bed-trick clearly shows that at least one partner is always physically and emotionally violated. While that partner may have chosen sexual involvement, he or she has not chosen it with the person unwittingly embraced in the dark.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-169) and index.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog description "The Bed-Trick in English Renaissance Drama provides the first detailed examination of this convention.".
• catalog description "The bed-trick, by depicting betrayal on the most intimate level, forces us to examine some of our own views on gender, sexuality, and the amount of power any person, whether male or female, may acceptably exercise over another.".
• catalog description "While most critical discussions focus exclusively on Shakespeare's use of the bed-trick in Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well, this study, written from a feminist perspective and based on an analysis of more than two hundred and fifty plays, places the bed-trick in its historical and theatrical context in order to challenge widely held critical assumptions about its theatrical history on the English Renaissance stage. It has been considered a comic convention, a mere device to complicate and resolve a plot, or the convention by which unwary men are entrapped into marriage by scheming females.".
• catalog extent "175 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Bed-trick in English Renaissance drama.".
• catalog identifier "0874134765 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Bed-trick in English Renaissance drama.".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
• catalog relation "Bed-trick in English Renaissance drama.".
• catalog spatial "England.".
• catalog subject "822/.309353 20".
• catalog subject "Beds in literature.".
• catalog subject "Deception in literature.".
• catalog subject "English drama 17th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Impersonation in literature.".
• catalog subject "PR658.D43 D47 1994".
• catalog subject "Power (Social sciences) in literature.".
• catalog subject "Renaissance England.".
• catalog subject "Sex in literature.".
• catalog subject "Sex role in literature.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. The Bed-Trick in Nondramatic Literature -- 2. The Theatrical Ancestry and Emergence of the Bed-Trick -- 3. The Bed-Trick in Matters of Marriage -- 4. The Bed-Trick as a Manifestation of Male Fantasies -- 5. The Violent Bed-Tricks of Tragicomedy and Tragedy -- Appendix: A Quick Overview of the Bed-Tricks of English Renaissance Drama.".
• catalog title "The bed-trick in English Renaissance drama : explorations in gender, sexuality, and power / Marliss C. Desens.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".