Shakespeare and Renaissance literature before heterosexuality [[electronic resource] /] / Rebecca Ann Bach

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450921403321
• Autore: Bach Rebecca Ann
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
• ISBN: 1-281-36325-1; 9786611363253; 0-230-60363-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 822.33; 822/.309353
• Soggetti: English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism; Heterosexuality in literature; English drama - 17th century - History and criticism; Heterosexuality - England - History; Sex in literature; Adultery in literature; Lust in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-235) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Before Heterosexuality; 1 The Homosocial King Lear: Sex, Men, and Women before the Valorization of Lust and Greed; 2 Restoration Shakespeare I: Adultery and the Birth of Heterosexuality; 3 Restoration Shakespeare 2: Friends and Libertines; 4 "Domestic Tragedy" and Emerging Heterosexuality; 5 Othello in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and the Colonial Origins of Heterosexuality; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.