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Sexuality in the Comedies of William Shakespeare
Author | : Stephen P. Thompson |
Publisher | : Greenhaven Publishing LLC |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2014-04-25 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0737770651 |
This fascinating edition examines the comedies of playwright William Shakespeare through the lens of sexuality. Essays explore topics such as the ambiguity of Shakespeare's sonnets, Renaissance attitudes toward sexuality, themes of misogyny in Taming of the Shrew, and sexual anxiety in Much Ado About Nothing. Modern perspectives on sexuality and courtship are also presented, covering subjects such as social media and dating, modern mythology about the differences between genders, and a decline in American romantic comedies.
Shakespeare's Sexual Comedy
Author | : Hugh M. Richmond |
Publisher | : Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Discusses the sonnets, The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labours Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and others.
Shakespeare and Sexuality in the Comedy of Morecambe & Wise
Author | : Stephen Hamrick |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2020-02-18 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 3030339580 |
Contextualizing the duo’s work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th Century’s most successful double-act. Over the course of a forty-four-year career (1940-1984), Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise appropriated snippets of verse, scenes, and other elements from seventeen of Shakespeare’s plays more than one-hundred-and-fifty times. Fashioning a kinder, more inclusive world, they deployed a vast array of elements connected to Shakespeare, his life, and institutions. Rejecting claims that they offer only nostalgic escapism, Hamrick analyses their work within contemporary contexts, including their engagement with many forms and genres, including Variety, the heritage industry, journalism, and more. ‘The Boys’ deploy Shakespeare to work through issues of class, sexuality, and violence. Lesbianism, drag, gay marriage, and a queer aesthetics emerge, helping to normalize homosexuality and complicate masculinity in the ‘permissive’ 1960s.
Sex with Shakespeare
Author | : Jillian Keenan |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0062378732 |
A provocative, moving, kinky, and often absurdly funny memoir about Shakespeare, love, obsession, and spanking When it came to understanding love, a teenage Jillian Keenan had nothing to guide her—until a production of The Tempest sent Shakespeare’s language flowing through her blood for the first time. In Sex with Shakespeare, she tells the story of how the Bard’s plays helped her embrace her unusual sexual identity and find a love story of her own. Four hundred years after Shakespeare’s death, Keenan’s smart and passionate memoir brings new life to his work. With fourteen of his plays as a springboard, she explores the many facets of love and sexuality—from desire and communication to fetish and fantasy. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Keenan unmasks Helena as a sexual masochist—like Jillian herself. In Macbeth, she examines criminalized sexual identities and the dark side of “privacy.” The Taming of the Shrew goes inside the secret world of bondage, domination, and sadomasochism, while King Lear exposes the ill-fated king as a possible sexual predator. Moving through the canon, Keenan makes it abundantly clear that literature is a conversation. In Sex with Shakespeare, words are love. As Keenan wanders the world in search of connection, from desert dictatorships to urban islands to disputed territories, Shakespeare goes with her —and provokes complex, surprising, and wildly important conversations about sexuality, consent, and the secrets that simmer beneath our surfaces.
Sexuality in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Author | : Gary Wiener |
Publisher | : Greenhaven Publishing LLC |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2013-11-08 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0737770643 |
This informative volume explores William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream through the lens of sexuality. The book examines Shakespeare's life and influences and offers readers a series of essays for consideration on topics related to sexuality, such as the notions of the war between the sexes, taboo sexuality, and the marginalization of women's sexuality. The text also offers readers contemporary perspectives on topics related to sexuality, such as adolescent sexuality, the categorizing of people into sexual classifications, and sex education.
Anxious Pleasures
Author | : Jonathan Hall |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780838635698 |
The following sections deal with such themes as the relationship of wit to political and sexual anxiety, the connection of the mobility of signs to an elusive interiority of the subject, and the paradoxically threatening and redemptive mobility of women in relationship to patriarchal control.
Shakespeare's Agonistic Comedy
Author | : G. Beiner |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780838634677 |
"As the poetics is based on the texts (not derived by deduction or theoretical extension from some principle of poetics), so it is applied as a tool of analysis to the texts and used in conjunction with evaluation. The underlying assumption is that the task of poetics is instrumental, and that its usefulness has to be demonstrated and verified in practice. Hence, the division of the book into two parts. As Part I formulates a poetics on the basis of the texts, so Part II applies the poetics to the major texts - always within the dynamics of the multiple-plot and multi-layered perspective on a play. Part II focuses in detail on The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, and Twelfth Night, analyzing the agons and placing them in relation to the comedy of love and the perspective of folly."--Jacket.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy
Author | : Alexander Leggatt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521779425 |
An accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies, dark comedies and romances, first published in 2001.