Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature before Heterosexuality
Published on 8. June 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 248 pages
978-1-349-53722-8 (ISBN)
Description
Shakespeare has been misread for centuries as having modern ideas about sex and gender.This book shows how in the Restoration and Eighteenth century, Shakespeare's plays and other Renaissance texts were adapted to make them conform to these modern ideas.Through readings of Shakespearean texts, including King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, and Othello, and other Renaissance drama, the book reveals a sexual world before heterosexuality. Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature Before Heterosexuality shows how revisions and criticism of Renaissance drama contributed to the emergence of heterosexuality.It also shows how changing ideas about status, adultery, friendship, and race were factors in that emergence.
Reviews / Votes
"Overall this text is lively and thought-provoking, and is a welcome contribution to the growing body of work on sexual representation and its history." - Comparative Drama"This provocative and interesting book will draw readers' attention to a wide range of Restoration and eighteenth-century texts with which many will be unfamiliar. The book successfully estranges the Renaissance and helps us to see heterosexual attachments as distrusted, branded as sinful, pursued as criminal. Bach also shows us, in detail, the process by which the Restoration and eighteenth century rewrote the Renaissance. This is a rich, thought-provoking, valuable book." - Frances E. Dolan, University of California, Davis
More details
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XII, 248 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
332 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-53722-8 (9781349537228)
DOI
10.1057/9780230603639
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
REBECCA ANN BACH is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
Content
The Homosocial King Lear: Sex, Men, and Women Before the Valorization of Lust and Greed Restoration Shakespeare 1: Adultery and the Birth of Heterosexuality Restoration Shakespeare 2: Friends and Libertines Domestic Tragedy and Emerging Heterosexuality Othello in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and the Colonial Origins of Heterosexuality