Kate Aughterson, Ailsa Grant Ferguson

Shakespeare and Gender (eBook, PDF)

Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare's Drama

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474290005
• Artikelnr.: 59636299

Autorenporträt

KATE AUGHTERSON is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Central England, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter one The Woman's Voice Key Text: Much Ado About Nothing
with The Winter's Tale Chapter two Kingship and the Male Body politic Key Text: Richard II
with Henry IV part I
Henry V
Richard III Interlude: Interview with Adjoa Andoh Chapter three Testing the Marriage Plot: Form
Violence and Gender Key Texts: The Taming of the Shrew
Much Ado About Nothing
All's Well that ends Well Chapter four Cross-dressing and Gender Transgression(s) Key Texts: Twelfth Night and As You Like It Interlude: Interview with Lucy Phelps Chapter five Gendering Madness Key Text: Hamlet
with Two Noble Kinsmen Chapter six Paternity and Patriarchy Key Text: King Lear
with The Tempest Chapter seven Sexual Excess: Space
Sex and Gender Key Texts: Comedy of Errors
Measure for Measure
Antony and Cleopatra
Pericles Chapter eight Anxious Masculinity Key Texts: Love's Labour's Lost
Othello
Cymbeline
The Winter's Tale
Chapter nine Maternal Bodies: Female Powers Key Texts: Henry VI
All's Well That Ends Well
The Winter's Tale References Index