Sexuality in Shakespeare | William C. Carroll (essay date 1994)
William C. Carroll (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "The Virgin Not: Language and Sexuality in Shakespeare," in Shakespeare Survey: An Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production, Vol. 46, 1994, pp. 107-19.
[In the following essay, Carroll discusses the question of female sexuality as a locus of mystification, dislocution, negation, and linguistic transgression in Shakespeare's dramas.]
'New plays and maidenheads', according to the Prologue of The Two Noble Kinsmen,
are near akin:
Much followed both, for both much money
giv'n
If they stand sound and well. And a good
play,
Whose modest scenes blush on his marriage
day
And shake to lose his honour, is like her
That after holy tie and first night's stir
Yet still is modesty, and still retains
More of the maid to sight than husband's
pains.
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