Looking for Sex in Shakespeare Paperback / softback
by Stanley (The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon) Wells
Paperback / softback
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Stanley Wells is one of the best-known and most versatile of Shakespeare scholars.
This book, written with characteristic verve and accessibility, considers how far sexual meaning in Shakespeare's writing is a matter of interpretation by actors, directors and critics.
Tracing interpretations of Shakespearean bawdy and innuendo from eighteenth-century editors to recent scholars and critics, Wells pays special attention to recent sexually orientated studies of A Midsummer Night's Dream, once regarded as the most innocent of its author's plays. He considers the Sonnets, some of which are addressed to a man, and asks whether they imply same-sex desire in the author, or are quasi-dramatic projections of the writer's imagination.
Finally, he looks at how male-to-male relationships in the plays have been interpreted as sexual in both criticism and performance.
Stanley Wells's lively, provocative, and open-minded book will appeal to a broad readership of students, theatregoers and Shakespeare lovers.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:124 pages, 14 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/04/2004
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- ISBN:9780521540391
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:124 pages, 14 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/04/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521540391