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Lelia's Kiss: Imagining Gender, Sex, And Marriage In Italian Renaissance Comedy (Toronto Italian Studies)

By autor: Laura Giannetti
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Lelia's Kiss analyzes gender roles, sexuality, and marriage in the Italian Renaissance through the lens of a large number of comedies from the period, ranging well beyond the traditional canon. Focusing on the social and cultural scripts found within these comedies, Laura Giannetti offers a new perspective on the way gender and marriage were portrayed, imagined, and critiqued on stage during the I...

Series: Toronto Italian Studies
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division; 1 edition (November 14, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0802099513
ISBN-13: 978-0802099518
Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1 x 9.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 5029244
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Laura Gianetti explores the many levels of her subject deftly. Her writing is lucid, engaging, scholarly without being tedious, and rich with cultural, social, psychological, historical as well as aesthetic insights. She explores the history of Renai...

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issance.Giannetti argues that these Renaissance plays created an often humorous dialogue with the presuppositions of their day, engaging with contemporary social norms, expectations and desires. The actions and choices of cross-dressing female and male characters challenged standard discourse and illustrated how masculinity and femininity was socially and culturally constructed. By examining representations of gender and marriage onstage, Lelia's Kiss demonstrates that Renaissance comedies not only reflected and commented on the everyday life of the time, but also interacted with it, exercising playful humour and revealing insight.