03543nam 2200745Ia 450 991078414010332120230721025657.01-281-36325-197866113632530-230-60363-710.1057/9780230603639(CKB)1000000000342442(EBL)308141(OCoLC)244656481(SSID)ssj0000309370(PQKBManifestationID)11234427(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000309370(PQKBWorkID)10266420(PQKB)11558936(DE-He213)978-0-230-60363-9(MiAaPQ)EBC308141(Au-PeEL)EBL308141(CaPaEBR)ebr10171490(CaONFJC)MIL136325(EXLCZ)99100000000034244220070525d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrShakespeare and Renaissance literature before heterosexuality[electronic resource] /Rebecca Ann Bach1st ed.New York Palgrave Macmillan20071 online resource (256 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-53722-5 1-4039-7654-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-235) and index.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; IndexShakespeare 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.English dramaEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600History and criticismHeterosexuality in literatureEnglish drama17th centuryHistory and criticismHeterosexualityEnglandHistorySex in literatureAdultery in literatureLust in literatureEnglish dramaHistory and criticism.Heterosexuality in literature.English dramaHistory and criticism.HeterosexualityHistory.Sex in literature.Adultery in literature.Lust in literature.822.33822/.309353Bach Rebecca Ann1514173MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784140103321Shakespeare and Renaissance literature before heterosexuality3749118UNINA