Article: In Words and Deeds: the Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance Tragedy.(Book Review)

In Words and Deeds: The Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance Tragedy. By ZENON LUIS-MARTINEZ (Costerus New Series, 145) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2002. viii+296 pp. 55 [euro]; $55. ISBN 90-420-0844-x.

Dr Zenon Luis-Martinez brings an impressive combination of scholarship and critical sophistication to bear on his thesis that 'incest is not simply constituted as literary motif in English Renaissance drama for its efficacy in the complication or unravelling of sensational plots, or for its metaphorical value as an oblique mode of addressing fashionable social or political issues, but for its close relation to the problem of private subjectivity' (p. 24). ...

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