Abstract: 'Reading Lording Barry, The Family of Love, with The Dutch Courtesan: Bodies, Spirits, Scatology, and Society' (Tomlinson)
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Abstract: 'Reading Lording Barry, The Family of Love, with The Dutch Courtesan: Bodies, Spirits, Scatology, and Society' (Tomlinson)
Subject
The Dutch Courtesan, "Marston, John", Dutch Courtesan 2019, Toronto Dutch Courtesan, conference abstract, early modern drama, non-Shakespearean drama, boys' companies, children's companies, Familism, The Family of Love, "Barry, Lording", female sexuality
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Abstract for Sophie Tomlinson's 'Reading Lording Barry, The Family of Love, with The Dutch Courtesan: Bodies, Spirits, Scatology, and Society'. Includes biography for Tomlinson.
Creator
"Tomlinson, Sophie"
Date
2019-03-23, 1605, 17th century
Contributor
Dutch Courtesan 2019 project team
Relation
The Dutch Courtesan
Format
.pdf (112KB)
Language
en-CA
Type
Text Object
Identifier
DC2019-0010
Coverage
Toronto (CA), London (UK), 2019-03-22-23, 1605, 17th century
Date Available
2019-06-30
Date Created
2019-03
References
The Dutch Courtesan, The Family of Love
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112KB
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Digital PDF
Bibliographic Citation
Tomlinson, Sophie. 'Reading Lording Barry, The Family of Love, with The Dutch Courtesan: Bodies, Spirits, Scatology, and Society'. 'Abstract. 'Strangers and Aliens in London and Toronto: Sex, Religion, and Xenophobia in John Marston's The Dutch Courtesan'. DC2019-0010. Dutch Courtesan 2019. Toronto, March 2019. https://dutchcourtesan2019.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/49
Spatial Coverage
Toronto (CA), London (UK)
Temporal Coverage
2019-03-23, 1605, 17th century
Accrual Method
Materials solicited by the Dutch Courtesan project team.
Accrual Periodicity
Infrequently updated after 2019.
Audience
researchers, researchers of early modern drama, university instructors, undergraduate students, graduate students
Audience Education Level
Post-Secondary, Graduate, Post-Graduate
Instructional Method
large-group instruction, small-group instruction, independent research
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‘Reading Lording Barry, The Family of Love, with The Dutch Courtesan: Bodies, Spirits,
Scatology, and Society’ (Panel 2: Religion as Foreign Invasion – 11:30AM-1:00PM, 22
March 2019)
Sophie Tomlinson (University of Auckland)
Facets of The Dutch Courtesan and The Family of Love suggest that the plays were written in dialogue, considering the proximity in their dates of composition, their performance by boys companies, and their interest in the religious fellowship stigmatised by King James I as ‘that vile sect called the Family of Love’. Both plays offer a plethora of female characters, but while Marston’s plot requires the expulsion of the Dutch courtesan and the erotic disappointment of the Familist Mistress
Mulligrub, by contrast, in Barry’s The Family of Love, the sole woman upbraided in the denouement is Mistress Glister, the doctor’s wife, whose flaws rate no larger than anger at her husband’s disloyalty and a fixation on cleanliness. I will also attend to the preoccupation with the humoral,
excretory body, as I address the question of whether Barry’s play attempts something quite different from Marston’s.
Sophie Tomlinson has won acclaim since 1992 for her focus on women’s participation in theatrical culture over the seventeenth century, shedding new light on professional drama written for the Jacobean, Caroline, and Restoration stages, on court and closet drama, and on drama by women. The cornerstone of her research is her book, Women on Stage in Stuart Drama (Cambridge, 2005). She documents and explores a prehistory dating from the early Stuart period in which women were vitally active in court theatricals and when the idea of the actress became a subject of controversy and debate on gendered subjectivity and performativity. Other major aspects of her research activity include editing early modern drama, particularly her 2006 edition of Fletcher, The Wild-Goose Chase (1621) (Revels Plays Companion Library series) and her in-progress edition of Barry, The Family of Love.
Scatology, and Society’ (Panel 2: Religion as Foreign Invasion – 11:30AM-1:00PM, 22
March 2019)
Sophie Tomlinson (University of Auckland)
Facets of The Dutch Courtesan and The Family of Love suggest that the plays were written in dialogue, considering the proximity in their dates of composition, their performance by boys companies, and their interest in the religious fellowship stigmatised by King James I as ‘that vile sect called the Family of Love’. Both plays offer a plethora of female characters, but while Marston’s plot requires the expulsion of the Dutch courtesan and the erotic disappointment of the Familist Mistress
Mulligrub, by contrast, in Barry’s The Family of Love, the sole woman upbraided in the denouement is Mistress Glister, the doctor’s wife, whose flaws rate no larger than anger at her husband’s disloyalty and a fixation on cleanliness. I will also attend to the preoccupation with the humoral,
excretory body, as I address the question of whether Barry’s play attempts something quite different from Marston’s.
Sophie Tomlinson has won acclaim since 1992 for her focus on women’s participation in theatrical culture over the seventeenth century, shedding new light on professional drama written for the Jacobean, Caroline, and Restoration stages, on court and closet drama, and on drama by women. The cornerstone of her research is her book, Women on Stage in Stuart Drama (Cambridge, 2005). She documents and explores a prehistory dating from the early Stuart period in which women were vitally active in court theatricals and when the idea of the actress became a subject of controversy and debate on gendered subjectivity and performativity. Other major aspects of her research activity include editing early modern drama, particularly her 2006 edition of Fletcher, The Wild-Goose Chase (1621) (Revels Plays Companion Library series) and her in-progress edition of Barry, The Family of Love.
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"Tomlinson, Sophie", “Abstract: 'Reading Lording Barry, The Family of Love, with The Dutch Courtesan: Bodies, Spirits, Scatology, and Society' (Tomlinson),” Dutch Courtesan 2019, accessed November 19, 2024, https://dutchcourtesan2019.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/49.
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