Shakespeare and Queer Representation

ISBN-13: 9781138389601 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 198 str.

Stephen Guy-Bray

Opis

In this engaging and accessible guidebook, Guy-Bray uses queer theory to argue that in many of Shakespeare’s works representation itself becomes queer. This thought-provoking and evocative book is an essential guide to students studying Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, gender studies, and queer literary theory

Recenzje

‘Building on a rich body of recent criticism that finds in Shakespeare's oeuvre not only a passive object ripe for queer analysis but also an active model of queer theory itself, Stephen Guy-Bray's insightful Shakespeare and Queer Representation argues that artistic representation plays a disorienting, queer role in Shakespearean theater and poetry, exceeding its task of depicting some external or "natural" object in service of narrative progression.’ Christopher Yates, Shakespeare Quarterly

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Cymbeline  2. King John  3. Macbeth  4 The Rape of Lucrece  5. The Sonnets  6. Venus and Adonis  Coda

O autorze

Stephen Guy-Bray is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada.