Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature before Heterosexuality / by R. Bach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bach, Rebecca Ann.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600.

European literature.

Poetry and Poetics.

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.

European Literature.

Local Subjects:

Poetry and Poetics.

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.

European Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2007.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Before Heterosexuality; 1 The Homosocial King Lear: Sex, Men, and Women before the Valorization of Lust and Greed; 2 Restoration Shakespeare I: Adultery and the Birth of Heterosexuality; 3 Restoration Shakespeare 2: Friends and Libertines; 4 "Domestic Tragedy" and Emerging Heterosexuality; 5 Othello in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and the Colonial Origins of Heterosexuality; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-235) and index.

ISBN:

9786611363253

9781281363251

1281363251

9780230603639

0230603637

OCLC:

244656481