The Oxford handbook of Shakespeare and embodiment : gender, sexuality, and race / edited by Valerie Traub.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Traub, Valerie, 1958- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Oxford handbooks

Oxford handbooks of literature.

Oxford handbooks of literature : Oxford handbooks of Shakespeare

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity in literature.

Sex in literature.

Race in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 781 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Edition:

First paperback edition

Other Title:

Shakespeare and embodiment

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018

Summary:

"This book brings together 40 of the most important scholars and intellectuals writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on the methods of historicism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and posthumanism, a team of international experts discuss Shakespeare's life, contemporary editing practices, and performance of his plays on stage, on screen, and in the classroom. This theoretically sophisticated yet elegantly written Handbook includes an editor's Introduction that provides a comprehensive overview of current debates."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Feminist Shakespeare studies : cross currents, border crossings, conflicts, and contradictions / Valerie Traub

Part I: The lives of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare's marriage / Lena Cowen Orlin ; The undocumented lives of William Shakespeare / Alan Stewart

Part II: Early modern women's lives. Amazons, Turks, and Tartars in the Gesta Grayorum and The comedy of errors / Bernadette Andrea ; Puzzling embodiment : proclamation, La Pucelle, and The first part of Henry VI / Stephen Spiess ; Spectres of female sovereignty in Shakespeare's plays / Susan Frye ; All's well that ends well and recipe cultures of knowledge / Wendy Wall

Part III: Race and ethnicity in local and transnational contexts. Constructing the inferior body : medieval theology in The merchant of Venice / M. Lindsay Kaplan ; The textile black body : race and 'shadowed livery' in The merchant of Venice / Ian Smith ; Bruised with adversity : reading race in The comedy of errors / Patricia Akhimie ; Identifying 'the Dane' : gender and race in Hamlet / Emily C. Bartels ; The imperial graft : horticulture, hybridity, and the art of mingling races in Henry V and Cymbeline / Jean E. Feerick ; Identities and bodies in early modern studies / Ania Loomba

Part IV: Sexualities. Shakespeare. Same sex. Marriage / Julie Crawford ; Comedies end in marriage / Kathryn Schwarz ; The fierce urgency of now : queer theory, presentism, and Romeo and Juliet / Will Stockton ; Impure resistance : heteroeroticism, feminism, and Shakespearean tragedy / Melissa E. Sanchez ; 'Strange things in hand' : perverse pleasures and erotic triangles in The merry wives of Windsor / Carol Thomas Neely ; 'Stray[ing] lower where the pleasant fountains lie' : cunnilingus in Venus and Adonis and in English culture, c.1600-1700 / Will Fisher ; Equeer : human-equine erotics in 1 Henry IV / Karen Raber

Part V: Embodied worlds, reconfigured agencies. Passionate spirits : animism and embodiment in Cymbeline and The tempest / Elizabeth D. Harvey ; Entangled agency : the assassin's conscience in Richard III and King John / Mario DiGangi ; Personification and the political imagination of A midsummer night's dream / Amanda Bailey ; Time to cheat : chess and The tempest's performative history of dynastic marriage / Gina Bloom ; Shakespeare differently disabled / Tobin Siebers ; Disability figures in Shakespeare / Vin Nardizzi ; Incorporating Kate : the myth of monolingualism in Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth / Marjorie Rubright ; Roguery and reproduction in The winter's tale / Ari Friedlander ; Exit pursued by a bear : staging animal bodies in The winter's tale / Maureen Quilligan

Part VI: Textual production and reproduction. Typographical embodiment : the case of etcetera / Laurie Maguire ; The gendered text and its labour / Valerie Wayne ; Glossing and t*pping : editing sexuality, race, and gender in Othello / Jeffrey Masten

Part VII: Cultural performances past and present. A time for The merry wives of Windsor / Kathleen E. McLuskie ; Dead likenesses and sex machines : Shakespearean media theory / Jennifer Waldron ; Pretty and apt : boy actors, skill, and embodiment / Evelyn Tribble ; Double falsehood : Cardenio and the lost history of rape / Holly Dugan ; Interrupting the Lucrece effect? The performance of rape on the early modern stage / Jean E. Howard ; Magic in the chains : Othello, Omkara, and the materiality of gender across time and media / Diana E. Henderson ; Precarious bodies : Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad at the World Shakespeare Festival / Susan Bennett ; Becoming Caliban : monster methods and performance theories / Lauren Eriks Cline ; Embodiment and the classroom performance / Ayanna Thompson and Laura Turchi ; Feeling Shakespeare / Denise Albanese.

Notes:

First published in 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780199663408

0199663408

9780198820406

0198820402

OCLC:

1027719182

Publisher Number:

99978228188