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Sex, Gender and Desire in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe.(Review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20000101
Author:Williams, Carolyn D.

Sex, Gender, and Desire in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe. By SARA MUNSON DEATS. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 296 pp. 36.50 [pounds sterling].

Sara Munson Deats works at the interface between specialized Marlowe studies and modern critical theory. She offers definitions of such key words as female, feminine, feminism, gender, sexuality, sex, and politics, discussing their use in literary criticism and psychoanalysis over the last century. She demonstrates that 'applying this contemporary methodology to early modern ...

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