DESIRE IN THE RENAISSANCE DESIRE IN THE RENAISSANCE PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LITERATURE EDITED BY VALERIA FINUCCI AND REGINA SCHWARTZ PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY Copyright1994byPrincetonUniversityPress PublishedbyPrincetonUniversityPress,41WilliamStreet, Princeton,NewJersey08540 IntheUnitedKingdom:PrincetonUniversityPress, Chichester,WestSussex AllRightsReserved LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData DesireintheRenaissance:psychoanalysisandliterature/ editedbyValeriaFinucciandReginaSchwartz. p. cm. Includesindex. eISBN 1-4008-0228-8 1.Englishliterature—Earlymodern,1500–1700—Historyand criticism. 2.Psychoanalysisandliterature. 3.Desirein literature. 4.Renaissance—England. I.Finucci,Valeria. II.Schwartz,ReginaM. PR428.P75D47 1994 820.9’353—dc20 94-14499 ThisbookhasbeencomposedinAdobeSabon To Our Students CONTENTS Introduction:WorldsWithinandWithout 3 ReginaSchwartzwithValeriaFinucci FAKING IT: SEX,CLASS,ANDGENDERMOBILITY TheInsincerityofWomen 19 MarjorieGarber MistakenIdentities:Castiglio(ne)’sPracticalJoke 39 NatashaKorda TheFemaleMasquerade:AriostoandtheGameofDesire 61 ValeriaFinucci OGLING: THECIRCULATIONOFPOWER ActaeonattheHinderGate:TheStagPartyinSpenser’s GardensofAdonis 91 HarryBerger EmbodiedVoices:PetrarchReading(HimselfReading)Ovid 120 LynnEnterline Through theOpticGlass:Voyeurismand Paradise Lost 146 ReginaSchwartz LOVING AND LOATHING: THEECONOMICS OFSUBJECTION LibidinalEconomies:MachiavelliandFortune’sRape 169 JulianaSchiesari FemaleFriendsandFraternalEnemiesin As You Like It 184 WilliamKerrigan DREAMING ON: UNCANNYENCOUNTERS FromVirgiltoTasso:TheEpicToposasanUncannyReturn 207 ElizabethJ.Bellamy viii CONTENTS WritingtheSpecularSon:Jonson,Freud,Lacan,andthe (K)notofMasculinity 233 DavidLeeMiller LISTOFCONTRIBUTORS 261 INDEX 263 DESIRE IN THE RENAISSANCE