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Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature Before Heterosexuality

Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature Before Heterosexuality

Bach, R.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismPlays

ISBN10: 1403976546
ISBN13: 9781403976543
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jun 8 2007
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.57
Language: English
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.

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