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Autore |
Bach Rebecca Ann |
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Titolo |
Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature before Heterosexuality / / by R. Bach |
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New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007 |
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ISBN |
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9786611363253 |
9781281363251 |
1281363251 |
9780230603639 |
0230603637 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2007.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Poetry |
European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 |
European literature |
Poetry and Poetics |
Early Modern and Renaissance Literature |
European Literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-235) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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. |
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