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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825332303321

Autore

Bach Rebecca Ann

Titolo

Shakespeare and Renaissance literature before heterosexuality / / Rebecca Ann Bach

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

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.