In words and deeds : the spectacle of incest in English Renaissance tragedy

AcknowledgementsIntroductionThe Stage on Incest/Incest on the Stage: What for, Why, and How?Chapter OneThe Play of Incest: Toward a Poetics of DesireChapter TwoThe House and the StageChapter ThreePlots of Tyrants and the Place of Desire: Gorboduc and King LearChapter Four“Look Well Upon ‘t:” Incest as Tragic Spectacle in Stuart Domestic DramaChapter FiveTragic Character: “Incestuous Persons”Postscript“An Explicable Place”BibliographyIndex