Shakespeare and Gender: Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare's Drama

ISBN-13: 9781474289986 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 288 str.

Kate Aughterson; Ailsa Grant Ferguson

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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