Shakespeare and Gender

Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Drama

Dr Kate Aughterson, Ailsa Grant Ferguson (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2020
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-4742-8997-9 (ISBN)

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Shakespeare and Gender guides students, educators, practitioners and researchers through the complexities of the representation of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare’s work. Informed by contemporary and early modern debates and insights into gender and sexuality, including intersectionality, feminist geography, queer and performance studies and fourth-wave feminism, this book provides a lucid and lively discussion of how gender and sexual identity are debated, contested and displayed in Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. Using close textual analysis hand-in- hand with diverse contextual materials, the book offers an accessible and intelligent introduction to how gender debates are integral to the plays and poems, and why we continue to read and perform them with this in mind.

Topics and themes discussed include gendering madness, paternity and the patriarchy, sexuality, anxious masculinity, maternal bodies, gender transgression, and kingship and the male body politic.

Kate Aughterson is Academic Programme Leader for Literature at the University of Brighton, UK. Ailsa Grant Ferguson is a Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Brighton, UK.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter one
The Woman’s Voice
Key Text: Much Ado About Nothing, with The Winter’s Tale

Chapter two
Kingship and the Male Body politic
Key Text: Richard II, with Henry IV part I, Henry V, Richard III

Interlude: Interview with Adjoa Andoh

Chapter three
Testing the Marriage Plot: Form, Violence and Gender
Key Texts: The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, All’s Well that ends Well
Chapter four
Cross-dressing and Gender Transgression(s)
Key Texts: Twelfth Night and As You Like It

Interlude: Interview with Lucy Phelps

Chapter five
Gendering Madness
Key Text: Hamlet, with Two Noble Kinsmen

Chapter six
Paternity and Patriarchy
Key Text: King Lear, with The Tempest
Chapter seven
Sexual Excess: Space, Sex and Gender
Key Texts: Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles
Chapter eight
Anxious Masculinity
Key Texts: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Othello, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale,
Chapter nine
Maternal Bodies: Female Powers
Key Texts: Henry VI, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Winter’s Tale

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2020
Zusatzinfo	11 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	364 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4742-8997-5 / 1474289975
ISBN-13	978-1-4742-8997-9 / 9781474289979
Zustand	Neuware