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Author:   Dr Kate Aughterson (University of Brighton, UK) ,  Ailsa Grant Ferguson (Brighton University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   The Arden Shakespeare
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781474289986

ISBN 10:   1474289983
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   20 August 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter one The Woman’s Voice Key Text: Much Ado About Nothing, with The Winter’s Tale Chapter two Kingship and the Male Body politic Key Text: Richard II, with Henry IV part I, Henry V, Richard III Interlude: Interview with Adjoa Andoh Chapter three Testing the Marriage Plot: Form, Violence and Gender Key Texts: The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, All’s Well that ends Well Chapter four Cross-dressing and Gender Transgression(s) Key Texts: Twelfth Night and As You Like It Interlude: Interview with Lucy Phelps Chapter five Gendering Madness Key Text: Hamlet, with Two Noble Kinsmen Chapter six Paternity and Patriarchy Key Text: King Lear, with The Tempest Chapter seven Sexual Excess: Space, Sex and Gender Key Texts: Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles Chapter eight Anxious Masculinity Key Texts: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Othello, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, Chapter nine Maternal Bodies: Female Powers Key Texts: Henry VI, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Winter’s Tale References Index

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This volume provides a thoughtful approach to a wide range of relevant issues through a combination of close reading, contextual non-fiction materials, and attention to recent performance and film. It will give students the tools they need to engage with the plays and will encourage them to make their own connections across traditional genres and periods. -- Ann Thompson, King's College London, UK This book revitalizes Shakespeare for contemporary readers. Its case study format situates the plays in both early modern and current performance contexts, setting up an urgent, ongoing dialogue between ideas of sex and gender available to Shakespeare and to us. Teachers and students alike will find it indispensable. * Coppelia Kahn, Professor Emerita of English, Brown University, USA *

This volume provides a thoughtful approach to a wide range of relevant issues through a combination of close reading, contextual non-fiction materials, and attention to recent performance and film. It will give students the tools they need to engage with the plays and will encourage them to make their own connections across traditional genres and periods. * Ann Thompson, King's College London, UK * This book revitalizes Shakespeare for contemporary readers. Its case study format situates the plays in both early modern and current performance contexts, setting up an urgent, ongoing dialogue between ideas of sex and gender available to Shakespeare and to us. Teachers and students alike will find it indispensable. * Coppelia Kahn, Professor Emerita of English, Brown University, USA *

Author Information

Kate Aughterson is Academic Programme Leader for Literature at the University of Brighton, UK. Ailsa Grant Ferguson is a Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Brighton, UK.

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