Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature Before Heterosexuality - Couverture rigide

Bach, R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1403976546 ISBN 13 : 9781403976543

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

REBECCA ANN BACH is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1403976546
• ISBN 13: 9781403976543
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 260
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