Sade's Theatre: Pleasure, Vision, Masochism

Wynn, Thomas

Abstract

This first full-length study in English to examine the marquis de Sade’s theatre will be of interest to all those working in eighteenth-century drama and theory of spectatorship. Attentive to eighteenth-century dramatic theory and practice, this book also borrows from psychoanalysis and film theory to argue that his plays offer a model of visual pleasure that is masochistic in nature.

Citation

Wynn, T. (2007). Sade's Theatre: Pleasure, Vision, Masochism. Voltaire Foundation

• Book Type: Authored Book
• Publication Date: Feb 1, 2007
• Deposit Date: Sep 10, 2010
• Series Title: Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century.
• Series ISSN: 0435-2866
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1125487
• Publisher URL: http://xserve.volt.ox.ac.uk/VFcatalogue/details.php?recid=6383