Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality: 2nd Edition by Goran Stanivukovic
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The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare's texts, as well as in stage performance and in textual criticism, this open access second edition features revisions to the original chapters and an additional 5 new chapters.
The plays and poems of Shakespeare overflow with sexual and erotic discourses, languages, and representations concerning eroticism and sex, and they display forms of embodiment that intersect with the erotic. This preoccupation with sex and desire often disrupts on page and stage the otherwise heavily regulated worlds of sexuality and desire in Shakespeare's society.
The updated chapters take stock of the ideas and arguments explored in queer Shakespeare scholarship since the first edition in 2017. Five new chapters expand the scope of the book and trace further lines of enquiry: queerness in stage performance, and in the original intersection between textual and trans analysis; queerness and race; queerness and critical disability studies in the narrative poetry, and trans theory of queer Shakespeare. Together with a new introduction, Queer Shakespeare expands the possibilities for teaching both Shakespeare and queer theory in all of its manifestations.
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Detail
Author: Goran Stanivukovic
Format: Paperback
Size: 156 mm x 234 mm
Pages: 384
Staff Review
Queer Shakespeare Desire & Sexuality contains thirteen essays by different writers which offer readings of Shakespeare focusing on a broad range of queer perspectives. These perspectives encompass not only desire, sexuality and gender, but expand ideas of queerness into concepts such as queer nature and queer language.
Topics range from an examination of the different types of love in Two Gentlemen of Verona and the location of queerness in Cymbeline, to a discussion of queer nature in Macbeth and the drawing of an analogy between homosexual sex and the practice of money-lending in The Merchant of Venice.
As with any collection of essays, some readings are more convincing than others, but all are interesting and thought-provoking and illustrate the variation in the many ways in which Shakespeare can be approached.
Review by Mel, Library & Archive Coordinator.
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The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare's texts, as well as in stage performance and in textual criticism, this open access second edition features revisions to the original chapters and an additional 5 new chapters.
The plays and poems of Shakespeare overflow with sexual and erotic discourses, languages, and representations concerning eroticism and sex, and they display forms of embodiment that intersect with the erotic. This preoccupation with sex and desire often disrupts on page and stage the otherwise heavily regulated worlds of sexuality and desire in Shakespeare's society.
The updated chapters take stock of the ideas and arguments explored in queer Shakespeare scholarship since the first edition in 2017. Five new chapters expand the scope of the book and trace further lines of enquiry: queerness in stage performance, and in the original intersection between textual and trans analysis; queerness and race; queerness and critical disability studies in the narrative poetry, and trans theory of queer Shakespeare. Together with a new introduction, Queer Shakespeare expands the possibilities for teaching both Shakespeare and queer theory in all of its manifestations.
Every purchase you make supports the work of Shakespeare's Globe. Thank you!
Detail
Author: Goran Stanivukovic
Format: Paperback
Size: 156 mm x 234 mm
Pages: 384
Staff Review
Queer Shakespeare Desire & Sexuality contains thirteen essays by different writers which offer readings of Shakespeare focusing on a broad range of queer perspectives. These perspectives encompass not only desire, sexuality and gender, but expand ideas of queerness into concepts such as queer nature and queer language.
Topics range from an examination of the different types of love in Two Gentlemen of Verona and the location of queerness in Cymbeline, to a discussion of queer nature in Macbeth and the drawing of an analogy between homosexual sex and the practice of money-lending in The Merchant of Venice.
As with any collection of essays, some readings are more convincing than others, but all are interesting and thought-provoking and illustrate the variation in the many ways in which Shakespeare can be approached.
Review by Mel, Library & Archive Coordinator.
We offer free UK delivery on orders over £30.
- Royal Mail – Tracked
- DHL Next Day Delivery
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- Royal Mail - Tracked standard service
- DHL Express Worldwide – faster delivery with tracking
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If your order includes both made-to-order and in-stock items, they will arrive in separate parcels. This helps us reduce unnecessary stock and waste. For more details, visit our Delivery & Returns page.
