Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality

ISBN-13: 9781350084476 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 424 str.

Goran Stanivukovic

Opis

A major re-assessment of desire, sexuality and same-sex eroticism in Shakespeare's plays and non-dramatic poetry by world leading scholars.

Recenzje

Queer Shakespeare engages with crucial yet subversive queerness throughout Shakespearean poetry and performance. Unifying past scholarship with vital queer theory, Stanivukovic's collection reveals necessary insights into our evolving relationship with Shakespeare. Peter Kuling, University of Ottawa, Canada

Spis treści

Introduction: 'Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality', by Goran Stanivukovic, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada1.'Which is worthiest love' in Two Gentlemen of Verona?, by David L. Orvis, Appalachan State University, USA2. 'Glass: The Sonnets' Desiring Object', by John Garrison, Carroll University USA 3. 'The Sport of Asses: A Midsummer Night's Dream', by Kirk Quinsland, Fordham University, USA4. 'As You Like It or What You Will: Shakespeare's Sonnets and Beccadelli's Hermaphroditus', by Ian F. Moulton, Arizona State University, USA5. 'The Queer Language of Size in Love's Labour's Lost', by Valerie Billing, Knox College, USA6. 'Locating Queerness in Cymbeline', by Stephen Guy-Bray, University of British Columbia, Canada7. 'Desiring H: Much Ado About Nothing and the Sound of Women's Desire', by Holly Dugan, George Washington University, USA8. '"Two lips, indifferent red:' Queer Styles in Twelfth Night', by Goran Stanivukovic, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada9. 'Queer Nature, or the Weather in Macbeth', by Christine Varnado, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA10. 'Strange Insertions in The Merchant of Venice', by Eliza Greenstadt, Portland State University, USA11. 'Male Femininity and Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Shakespeare's Plays and Poems,' by Simone Chess, Wayne State University, USA12. 'Held in Common: Romeo and Juliet and The Promiscuous Seductions of Plague', by Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt University, USA13. 'Antisocial Procreation in Measure for Measure', by Melissa E. Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania, USAAfterword by Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia, Canada

O autorze

Goran Stanivukovic is Professor of English at Saint Mary's University. His most recent publication is Knights in Arms: Prose Romance, Masculinity, and Eastern Mediterranean Trade in Early Modern England, 1565-1655 (Universityof Toronto Press, 2016).