Queer Shakespeare
Desire and Sexuality
Published on 13. July 2017
Book
Hardback
424 pages
978-1-4742-9524-6 (ISBN)
Description
Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality draws together 13 essays, which offer a major reassessment of the criticism of desire, body and sexuality in Shakespeare's drama and poetry. Bringing together some of the most prominent critics working at the intersection of Shakespeare criticism and queer theory, this collection demonstrates the vibrancy of queer Shakespeare studies. Taken together, these essays explore embodiment, desire, sexuality and gender as key objects of analyses, producing concepts and ideas that draw critical energy from focused studies of time, language and nature. The Afterword extends these inquiries by linking the Anthropocene and queer ecology with Shakespeare criticism. Works from Shakespeare's entire canon feature in essays which explore topics like glass, love, antitheatrical homophobia, size, narrative, sound, female same-sex desire and Petrarchism, weather, usury and sodomy, male femininity and male-to-female crossdressing, contagion, and antisocial procreation.
Reviews / Votes
Unifying past scholarship with vital queer theory, this collection reveals necessary insights into our evolving relationship with Shakespeare ... This collection fervently reminds us that our largely underused queer imaginations may find productive new avenues to explore. * Shakespeare Bulletin * Through its insightful and apt discussions of Shakespeare's plays and poems, this volume offers specialists of early modern queer studies plenty to reflect upon. It will also be of great interest to readers who are not already conversant with queer theory. * Cahiers Elisabethains *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 202 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
560 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4742-9524-6 (9781474295246)
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Person
Goran Stanivukovic is Professor of English at Saint Mary's University. His most recent publication is Knights in Arms: Prose Romance, Masculinity, and Eastern Mediterranean Trade in Early Modern England, 1565-1655 (Universityof Toronto Press, 2016).
Content
Introduction: 'Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality', by Goran Stanivukovic, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada
1.'Which is worthiest love' in Two Gentlemen of Verona?, by David L. Orvis, Appalachan State University, USA
2. 'Glass: The Sonnets' Desiring Object', by John Garrison, Carroll University USA
3. 'The Sport of Asses: A Midsummer Night's Dream', by Kirk Quinsland, Fordham University, USA
4. 'As You Like It or What You Will: Shakespeare's Sonnets and Beccadelli's Hermaphroditus', by Ian F. Moulton, Arizona State University, USA
5. 'The Queer Language of Size in Love's Labour's Lost', by Valerie Billing, Knox College, USA
6. 'Locating Queerness in Cymbeline', by Stephen Guy-Bray, University of British Columbia, Canada
7. 'Desiring H: Much Ado About Nothing and the Sound of Women's Desire', by Holly Dugan, George Washington University, USA
8. '"Two lips, indifferent red:' Queer Styles in Twelfth Night', by Goran Stanivukovic, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada
9. 'Queer Nature, or the Weather in Macbeth', by Christine Varnado, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA
10. 'Strange Insertions in The Merchant of Venice', by Eliza Greenstadt, Portland State University, USA
11. 'Male Femininity and Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Shakespeare's Plays and Poems,' by Simone Chess, Wayne State University, USA
12. 'Held in Common: Romeo and Juliet and The Promiscuous Seductions of Plague', by Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt University, USA
13. 'Antisocial Procreation in Measure for Measure', by Melissa E. Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Afterword by Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia, Canada
1.'Which is worthiest love' in Two Gentlemen of Verona?, by David L. Orvis, Appalachan State University, USA
2. 'Glass: The Sonnets' Desiring Object', by John Garrison, Carroll University USA
3. 'The Sport of Asses: A Midsummer Night's Dream', by Kirk Quinsland, Fordham University, USA
4. 'As You Like It or What You Will: Shakespeare's Sonnets and Beccadelli's Hermaphroditus', by Ian F. Moulton, Arizona State University, USA
5. 'The Queer Language of Size in Love's Labour's Lost', by Valerie Billing, Knox College, USA
6. 'Locating Queerness in Cymbeline', by Stephen Guy-Bray, University of British Columbia, Canada
7. 'Desiring H: Much Ado About Nothing and the Sound of Women's Desire', by Holly Dugan, George Washington University, USA
8. '"Two lips, indifferent red:' Queer Styles in Twelfth Night', by Goran Stanivukovic, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada
9. 'Queer Nature, or the Weather in Macbeth', by Christine Varnado, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA
10. 'Strange Insertions in The Merchant of Venice', by Eliza Greenstadt, Portland State University, USA
11. 'Male Femininity and Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Shakespeare's Plays and Poems,' by Simone Chess, Wayne State University, USA
12. 'Held in Common: Romeo and Juliet and The Promiscuous Seductions of Plague', by Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt University, USA
13. 'Antisocial Procreation in Measure for Measure', by Melissa E. Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Afterword by Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia, Canada