Behaving like a Man
Performed Masculinities in Gl'ingannati
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9814969 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerry Milligan (0009-0007-3553-698X, College of Staten Island, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-42 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Forum Italicum A Journal of Italian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-5858 • E-ISSN: 2168-989X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001458580704100102 |
| OpenAlex | W2314361651 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
This essay focuses specifically on masculine performance in the Gl 'ingannati (1532) and views the comedy's sexual play as imbued with a political discourse. The tension and disorder so precious to comedy are, in Gl 'ingannati, borne precisely from the political and sexual anxieties of the recently invaded Italy in the sack of 1527. The social disorder caused by the sack is paralleled by the sexual ‘disorder’ of the raped and sodomized protagonists. Their return to civic positions of husband, patrician or wife also marks a return to sexual normalcy. This essay further argues that Gl 'ingannati eschews a traditional gender binary to show a much more complex potentiality whereby the disempowered and previously ‘penetrated’ may threaten their own penetrating potential. The standard wedding conclusion does not resolve gender confusion, but instead institutionalizes the survival of a troublesome gender outsider, the transvestite Fabio. Gl 'ingannati teaches us that it is through the cunning use of narrative and performance that the Sienese can wed their new master, regain civic order, and still be on top
Art · Comedy · Confusion · Literature · Narrative · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Wife · Cinema and Media Studies · Digital Games and Media · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |