Shakespeare and Gender
Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare's Drama
Published on 20. August 2020
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-4742-8998-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
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. * Ann Thompson, King's College London, UK * This book revitalizes Shakespeare for contemporary readers. Its case study format situates the plays in both early modern and current performance contexts, setting up an urgent, ongoing dialogue between ideas of sex and gender available to Shakespeare and to us. Teachers and students alike will find it indispensable. * Coppelia Kahn, Professor Emerita of English, Brown University, USA * Reading Shakespeare and Gender: Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare's Drama constitutes a rewarding experience. Aughterson and Grant Ferguson write in a style that is both clear and didactic, which significantly contributes to engage readers from the very first page. * Sederi Yearbook *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
11 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4742-8998-6 (9781474289986)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
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.
Ailsa Grant Ferguson is Principal Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Brighton, UK.
Content
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
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