Aughterson, Kate, 1961-

Shakespeare and gender : sex and sexuality in Shakespeare's drama / Kate Aughterson and Ailsa Grant Ferguson. - First edition. - 1 online resource (x, 278 pages) : : color illustrations. - The Arden Shakespeare . - The Arden Shakespeare .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The woman's voice -- The male body, kingship and the body politic. Practitioner perspective: Adjoa Andoh -- Testing the marriage plot : Form, violence and gender -- Cross-dressing and gender transgression(s). Practitioner perspective: Lucy Phelps -- Gendering madness -- Paternity and patriarchy -- Sexual excess : Space, sex and gender -- Anxious masculinity -- Maternal bodies : Female powers.

Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers.

"Shakespeare and Gender guides students and teachers through the complexities of the representation of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare's work. Informed by contemporary debates and insights into gender and sexuality, including intersectionality, feminist geography, queer and performance studies and fourth-wave feminism, this book provides a lucid and lively discussion of how gender and sexual identity are debated, contested and displayed in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Using close textual analysis hand-in-hand with verbal and visual contextual materials the book offers an accessible and intelligent introduction both to how gender debates are integral to the plays and poems, and why we continue to read and perform them with this in mind"--




Mode of access: World Wide Web.

9781474290012

10.5040/9781474290012 doi




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


Sex (Psychology) in literature.
Feminism.
Queer theory.
Shakespeare studies & criticism


Electronic books.

PR3069.S45 / A94 2020eb

822.3/3