Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: R. Bach
Publisher: Palgrave USA
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Edition: 2007 ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.480kg
ISBN: 9781403976543
ISBN 10: 1403976546
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 08 June 2007
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Overall this text is lively and thought-provoking, and is a welcome contribution to the growing body of work on sexual representation and its history. -- Comparative Drama “This provocative and interesting book will draw readers' attention to a wide range of Restoration and eighteenth-century texts with which many will be unfamiliar. The book successfully estranges the Renaissance and helps us to see heterosexual attachments as distrusted, branded as sinful, pursued as criminal. Bach also shows us, in detail, the process by which the Restoration and eighteenth century rewrote the Renaissance. This is a rich, thought-provoking, valuable book.”--Frances E. Dolan, University of California, Davis
Overall this text is lively and thought-provoking, and is a welcome contribution to the growing body of work on sexual representation and its history. -- Comparative Drama This provocative and interesting book will draw readers' attention to a wide range of Restoration and eighteenth-century texts with which many will be unfamiliar. The book successfully estranges the Renaissance and helps us to see heterosexual attachments as distrusted, branded as sinful, pursued as criminal. Bach also shows us, in detail, the process by which the Restoration and eighteenth century rewrote the Renaissance. This is a rich, thought-provoking, valuable book. --Frances E. Dolan, University of California, Davis
Author Information
REBECCA ANN BACH is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
