03496nam 22007815 450 991097009570332120240508222938.09786611363253978128136325112813632519780230603639023060363710.1057/9780230603639(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(Perlego)3498514(EXLCZ)99100000000034244220151204d2007 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrShakespeare and Renaissance Literature before Heterosexuality /by R. Bach1st ed. 2007.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2007.1 online resource (256 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781349537228 1349537225 9781403976543 1403976546 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.PoetryEuropean literatureRenaissance, 1450-1600European literaturePoetry and PoeticsEarly Modern and Renaissance LiteratureEuropean LiteraturePoetry.European literatureEuropean literature.Poetry and Poetics.Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.European Literature.822.33822/.309353Bach Rebecca Ann1792525MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910970095703321Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature before Heterosexuality4331190UNINA