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Sex, Gender, and Desire in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe.(Review)
From: Renaissance Quarterly
Date: 19990322
Author:DiGangi, Mario
Sara Munson Deats. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997. 296 pp. $43.50. ISBN: 0-87413-613-X
It is difficult to place Sara Deats's Sex, Gender, and Desire in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe among recent studies of Renaissance gender and sexuality. Citing materialist critics like Jonathan Dollimore and Catherine Belsey, Deats aims to "enlist both theory and history" in a "cultural reading of the construction of sex, gender, and sexuality in Marlowe's plays" (16). Deats displays an impressive knowledge of both traditional and recent Marlowe scholarship, and her ...
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