{"product_id":"in-words-and-deeds-9789042008441","title":"In Words and Deeds","description":"Departing from earlier studies which regarded incest as a literary topos or dramatic metaphor foregrounding political, social, or legal issues, \u003ci\u003eWords  and Deeds: The Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the presence of incest on the Renaissance stage is a strategy for the enactment of the spectator’s tragic experience. Incest is explored neither as a sin nor as a crime, but as an “unspeakable” experience filtered through dramatic words and deeds. The incitement of desire, visual pleasure, and unconscious fantasy, as well as traumatic rejection, pain, and horror, are all aspects of this paradoxical and uncanny experience. Aristotelian theory of tragedy, Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Michel Foucault’s notions of the deployment of sexuality and alliance, concur in the analysis of plays where incest is a central or a secondary motif – Ford’s \u003ci\u003e’Tis Pity She’s a Whore\u003c\/i\u003e, Beaumont and Fletcher’s \u003ci\u003eCupid’s Revenge\u003c\/i\u003e, Webster’s \u003ci\u003eThe Duchess of Malfi\u003c\/i\u003e – and others where incest is an effect of language and \u003ci\u003emise-en-scène\u003c\/i\u003e – Sackville and Norton’s \u003ci\u003eGorboduc\u003c\/i\u003e, Shakespeare’s \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e. The variety of topics and the combination of critical perspectives makes \u003ci\u003eIn Words and Deeds\u003c\/i\u003e an attractive book for students and teachers of Renaissance drama, as well as for those with a special interest in psychoanalytic and other new  theoretical approaches to the literary text.","brand":"Zenón Luis-Martínez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274015584507,"sku":"9789042008441","price":149.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_657d7de1-be80-4274-9af6-0de199bd3084.jpg?v=1774742914","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/in-words-and-deeds-9789042008441","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}