Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature Before Heterosexuality.

By: Bach, Rebecca AnnMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (251 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780230603639Subject(s): Adultery in literature | English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism | English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism | Heterosexuality -- England -- History | Heterosexuality in literature | Sex in literature | Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretationGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature Before HeterosexualityDDC classification: 373.1102 LOC classification: PN1010-PN1551PN715-POnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
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 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: This book shows how in the Restoration and Eighteenth century, Shakespeare's plays and other Renaissance texts were adapted to make them conform to contemporary ideas.
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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 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This book shows how in the Restoration and Eighteenth century, Shakespeare's plays and other Renaissance texts were adapted to make them conform to contemporary ideas.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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