Looking For Sex In Shakespeare

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521540399

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Looking for Sex in Shakespeare by Stanley Wells Pdf

Stanley Wells is one of the best-known and most versatile of Shakespeare scholars. His new book, written with characteristic verve and accessibility, considers how far sexual meaning in Shakespeare's writing is a matter of interpretation by actors, directors and critics. Tracing interpretations of Shakespearean bawdy and innuendo from eighteenth-century editors to recent scholars and critics, Wells pays special attention to recent sexually orientated studies of A Midsummer Night's Dream, once regarded as the most innocent of its author's plays. He considers the Sonnets, some of which are addressed to a man, and asks whether they imply same-sex desire in the author, or are quasi-dramatic projections of the writer's imagination. Finally, he looks at how male-to-male relationships in the plays have been interpreted as sexual in both criticism and performance. Stanley Wells's lively, provocative, and open-minded new book will appeal to a broad readership of students, theatregoers and Shakespeare lovers.

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191614699

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Shakespeare, Sex, and Love by Stanley Wells Pdf

How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Pre-eminent Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and anecdotal sources to present an illuminating account of sexual behaviour in Shakespeare's time, particularly in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. He demonstrates what we know or can deduce of the sex lives of Shakespeare and members of his family. He also provides a fascinating account of depictions of sexuality in the poetry of the period and suggests that at the time Shakespeare was writing most of his non-dramatic verse a group of poets catered especially for readers with homoerotic tastes. The second part of Shakespeare, Sex, - and Love focuses on the variety of ways in which Shakespeare treats sexuality in his plays and at how he relates sexuality to love. Wells shows that Shakespeare's attitude to sex developed over the course of his writing career, and devotes whole chapters to 'The Fun of Sex' - to how he raises laughter out of the matter of sex in both the language and the plotting of some of his comedies; portrayals of sexual desire; to Romeo and Juliet as the play in which Shakespeare focuses most centrally on issues relating to sex, love, and the relationship between them; to sexual jealousy, traced through four major plays; 'Sexual Experience'; and 'Whores and Saints'. A final chapter, 'Just Good Friends' examines Shakespeare's rendering of same-gender relationships.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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William Shakespeare by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Edmondson,Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107054325

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The Shakespeare Circle by Paul Edmondson,Stanley Wells Pdf

This collection tells the life stories of the people whom we know Shakespeare encountered, shedding new light on Shakespeare's life and times.

Author : Michael P. Jensen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476670607

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Shakespeare Scholars in Conversation by Michael P. Jensen Pdf

 Twenty-four of today's most prominent Shakespeare scholars discuss the best-known works in Shakespeare studies, along with some nearly forgotten classics that deserve fresh appraisal. An extensive bibliography provides a reading list of the most important works in the field. A filmography then lists the most important Shakespeare films, along with the films that influenced Shakespeare filmmakers. Interviewees include Sir Stanley Wells, Sir Jonathan Bate, Sir Brian Vickers, Ann Thompson, Virginia Mason Vaughan, George T. Wright, Lukas Erne, MacDonald P. Jackson, Peter Holland, James Shapiro, Katherine Duncan-Jones and Barbara Hodgdon.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108490399

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All the Sonnets of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare Pdf

A beautiful edition of Shakespeare's sonnets in chronological order, including passages from his plays, freshly introduced and paraphrased.

Author : Jillian Keenan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062378736

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Sex with Shakespeare by Jillian Keenan Pdf

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.

Author : John S. Garrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198857716

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The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets by John S. Garrison Pdf

The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets uses Shakespeare's poetry as a case study for the mutually formative relationship between desire and recollection. Through a series of close readings that are both historically situated and informed by recent theory, it traces how the speaker of the poems strives for a more agential relationship to his own memory by treating recollection as a form of narrative. Drawing together insights from cognitive science, the early modern memory arts, and psychoanalysis, John S. Garrison connects the Sonnets to the larger Renaissance project of conceiving memory as a faculty to be developed and managed through self-discipline and rhetoric. In doing so, he reveals how early modern thought presaged many theories that have emerged in contemporary neuroscientific and psychoanalytic understandings of the self and its longing for pleasure. The Sonnets emerge as a collection that contemplates the affective dimensions and conceptual overlaps that bind anticipation to retrospection in the fraught pursuit of erotic pleasure. Indispensable for students and scholars working on Shakespeare's poetry, this study appeals also to a broader audience of readers interested in affect, memory, and sexuality studies. Shakespeare's most beloved sonnets are discussed, as well as less familiar ones, alongside contemporary adaptations of the poems. Garrison brings the Sonnets further into the present by comparing them with treatments of pleasure and memory by modern authors such as C.P. Cavafy, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and Michael Ondaatje.

Author : Douglas J. King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9798216165514

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William Shakespeare by Douglas J. King Pdf

Based on solid research and clear explanations, this book provides a thorough and up-to-date analysis of 10 key facts and fictions regarding the life and works of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare is perhaps the most famous author in world literature. His works have attracted tremendous critical and historical attention, and the world in which he lived has been the subject of hundreds if not thousands of books. But for all the attention given to Shakespeare and his world, arguments continue about what we can say for sure concerning his life and works. This book brings a unique perspective to the ongoing fascination and debate over the life and works of the most renowned writer of all time. The book focuses on 10 separate key issues, including Shakespeare's sexuality, his religion, his marriage and family, his education, and the vexing "authorship question." Each chapter treats a particular topic and provides a section on what people think happened, how the story developed, and what we now believe is the historical truth. This book looks objectively and closely at evidence to provide the most likely explanations for questions that cannot be definitively answered. Using historical primary source documents, it gives readers the clearest possible view of endlessly fascinating topics.

Author : Heavenly Joy
Publisher : KY Publications
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9789387769632

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“I AM NOT WHAT I AM!” : A QUEER CRITIQUE OF SHAKESPEARE by Heavenly Joy Pdf

Was Shakespeare a queer? Why is cross-dressing a recurrent theme in his exceptional plays like The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Cymbeline, The Taming of the Shrew and The Merry Wives of Windsor as well as his sonnets? This book provides insights into this dilemma, though the answer lies far beyond centuries..

Author : Simon Trussler,Clive Barker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521603285

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New Theatre Quarterly 79: Volume 20, Part 3 by Simon Trussler,Clive Barker Pdf

Provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet.

Author : Valerie Traub
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812247299

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Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns by Valerie Traub Pdf

What do we know about early modern sex, and how do we know it? How, when, and why does sex become history? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses these questions and, in doing so, reorients the ways in which historians and literary critics, feminists and queer theorists approach sexuality and its history. Her answers offer interdisciplinary strategies for confronting the difficulties of making sexual knowledge. Based on the premise that producing sexual knowledge is difficult because sex itself is often inscrutable, Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns leverages the notions of opacity and impasse to explore barriers to knowledge about sex in the past. Traub argues that the obstacles in making sexual history can illuminate the difficulty of knowing sexuality. She also argues that these impediments themselves can be adopted as a guiding principle of historiography: sex may be good to think with, not because it permits us access but because it doesn't.

Author : Fay Bound Alberti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190257828

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This Mortal Coil by Fay Bound Alberti Pdf

How humans have felt and thought about the body-our bodies-has never been static. Rather, it has shifted across times and cultures, taking and losing definition due to any number of forces and trends-philosophical, religious, cultural, technological. Sometimes we imagine our identity purely as an extension of our fleshly self and its assemblage of functions, organs, and appendages, sometimes as something entirely separate and discrete-trapped as opposed to defined by our "mortal coil," as Hamlet frames it in his famous soliloquy. So, too, over time, our ideas about what constitutes the desirable, the healthy, the beautiful, and the whole have remained partial, each an impression formed by its particular moment in time. In this probing and illuminating new book, Fay Bound Alberti deploys the global histories of medicine, pathology, and sensibilities to examine our changing notions of the human body. Each chapter focuses on one part-bones, skin, sexual organs, spine, tongue, heart-revealing the cultural meanings tied to each, the repercussions of these associations, and ultimately the harm that comes of distinguishing mind and body, the parts from the whole, as is so often the case in Western medicine. This Mortal Coil explores many enduring themes: the nature of identity, the relationship between the brain and the heart, and the gendering of our physical and emotional selves. Moving beyond the surface and down to what lies beneath, Bound Alberti provides a rich and fascinating account of the human body, shedding light on the role scientific developments-from medical care to plastic surgery to cloning-play in how we look at and shape ourselves. Bound Alberti's provocative and engrossing book reveals how the mortal coil can be unwound, then looked at as if for the first time.

Author : Gary Wiener
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-08
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780737763881

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Sexuality in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream by Gary Wiener Pdf

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.

Author : Paul Edmondson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350317031

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Twelfth Night by Paul Edmondson Pdf

This book opens up Twelfth Night as a play to see and hear, provides useful contextual and source material, and considers the critical and theatrical reception over four centuries. A detailed performance commentary brings to life the many moods of Shakespeare's subtle but robust humour. Students are encouraged to imagine the theatrical challenges of Shakespeare's Illyria afresh for themselves, as well as the thought, creative responses and wonder it has provoked.