Shakespeare and Gender

Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Drama

AvKate Aughterson,Ailsa Grant Ferguson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Shakespeare and Gender guides students, educators, practitioners and researchers through the complexities of the representation of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare’s work. Informed by contemporary and early modern debates and insights into gender and sexuality, including intersectionality, feminist geography, queer and performance studies and fourth-wave feminism, this book provides a lucid and lively discussion of how gender and sexual identity are debated, contested and displayed in Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. Using close textual analysis hand-in- hand with diverse contextual materials, the book offers an accessible and intelligent introduction to how gender debates are integral to the plays and poems, and why we continue to read and perform them with this in mind.Topics and themes discussed include gendering madness, paternity and the patriarchy, sexuality, anxious masculinity, maternal bodies, gender transgression, and kingship and the male body politic.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-08-20
Mått:138 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt:476 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781474289986

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Kate Aughterson is Academic Programme Leader for Literature at the University of Brighton, UK.Ailsa Grant Ferguson is Principal Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Brighton, UK.

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This volume provides a thoughtful approach to a wide range of relevant issues through a combination of close reading, contextual non-fiction materials, and attention to recent performance and film. It will give students the tools they need to engage with the plays and will encourage them to make their own connections across traditional genres and periods.

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter oneThe Woman’s Voice Key Text: Much Ado About Nothing, with The Winter’s TaleChapter twoKingship and the Male Body politic Key Text: Richard II, with Henry IV part I, Henry V, Richard IIIInterlude: Interview with Adjoa AndohChapter threeTesting the Marriage Plot: Form, Violence and Gender Key Texts: The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, All’s Well that ends WellChapter fourCross-dressing and Gender Transgression(s)Key Texts: Twelfth Night and As You Like ItInterlude: Interview with Lucy PhelpsChapter fiveGendering MadnessKey Text: Hamlet, with Two Noble KinsmenChapter sixPaternity and PatriarchyKey Text: King Lear, with The TempestChapter sevenSexual Excess: Space, Sex and Gender Key Texts: Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles Chapter eightAnxious MasculinityKey Texts: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Othello, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, Chapter nineMaternal Bodies: Female PowersKey Texts: Henry VI, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Winter’s TaleReferencesIndex