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Arden Shakespeare Intersections eBook Series

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  • Shakespeare / Sex

    Contemporary Readings in Gender and Sexuality

    Series series Arden Shakespeare Intersections
    Shakespeare / Sex interrogates the relationship between Shakespeare and sex by challenging readers to consider Shakespeare's texts in light of the most recent theoretical approaches to gender and sexuality studies. It takes as its premise that gender and sexuality studies are key to any interpretation of Shakespeare, be it his texts and their historical contexts, contemporary stage and cinematic ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

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  • Sex before Sex

    Figuring the Act in Early Modern England

    What is sex exactly? Does everyone agree on a definition? And does that definition hold when considering literary production in other times and places? Sex before Sex makes clear that we cannot simply transfer our contemporary notions of what constitutes a sex act into the past and expect them to be true for the people who were then reading literature and watching plays. The contributors confront ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

  • Echoes of Desire

    English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses

    Echoes of Desire variously invokes and interrogates a number of historicist and feminist premises about Tudor and Stuart literature by examining the connections between the anti-Petrarchan tradition and mainstream Petrarchan poetry. It also addresses some of the broader implications of contemporary critical methodologies. Heather Dubrow offers an alternative to the two predominant models used in ... Read more

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  • The Drama of Shakespeare's England: A Writing Guide for Students

    You have to write an essay on Shakespeare and you need some help. Fast. This short, easy-to-read guide covers all the ins and outs of writing about The Bard.Here you'll learn how to approach the Shakespeare play, how to understand its language, how to build a strong argument and much more.Included is an emergency late-night summary in case you don't even have time to read a short ebook! ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Critical Essays

    Edited by Dorothea Kehler ...
    Series series Shakespeare Criticism
    This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • William Shakespeare: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Beard Fetish in Early Modern England

    Sex, Gender, and Registers of Value

    Focusing on representations of beards in English Renaissance culture, this study elucidates how fetish objects validate ideological systems of power by materializing complex value in multiple registers. Providing detailed discussions of not only bearded men but also beardless boys, bearded women, and half-bearded hermaphrodites, author Mark Albert Johnston argues that attending closely to early ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and Feminist Theory

    Series series Shakespeare and Theory
    Are Shakespeare's plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women? Or are they sometimes both? And is it relevant, and if so how, that his women were first played by boys? This book shows how many kinds of feminist theory help analyze the dynamics of Shakespeare's plays. Both feminist theory and the plays deal with issues such as likeness and difference ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Ecocriticism and Shakespeare

    Reading Ecophobia

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of 'Nature' in Shakespeare. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Queering Childhood in Early Modern English Drama and Culture

    This volume analyzes early modern cultural representations of children and childhood through the literature and drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Contributors include leading international scholars of the English Renaissance whose essays consider asexuals and sodomites, roaring girls and schoolboys, precocious princes and raucous tomboys, boy actors and female apprentices, while ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare

    James Bromley argues that Renaissance texts circulate knowledge about a variety of non-standard sexual practices and intimate life narratives, including non-monogamy, anal eroticism, masochism and cross-racial female homoeroticism. Rethinking current assumptions about intimacy in Renaissance drama, poetry and prose, the book blends historicized and queer approaches to embodiment, narrative and ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality

    Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism

    by Alan Sinfield ...
    Series series Accents on Shakespeare
    Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality is a powerful reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding textuality, history and culture, by one of the founding figures of this critical movement. Alan Sinfield examines cultural materialism both as a body of ongoing argument and as it informs particular works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, especially in relation to sexuality in early ... Read more

    $57.99 USD