Shakespeare and Gender: Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Drama

by Kate Aughterson, Ailsa Grant Ferguson, Kate Aughterson and Ailsa Grant Ferguson (Editor)

Shakespeare and Gender guides students, educators, practitioners and researchers through the complexities of the representation of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare's work. Informed by contemporary and early modern debates and insights into gender and sexuality, including intersectionality, feminist geography, queer and performance studies and fourth-wave feminism, this book provides a lucid and lively discussion of how gender and sexual identity are debated, contested and displayed in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Using close textual analysis hand-in- hand with diverse contextual materials, the book offers an accessible and intelligent introduction to how gender debates are integral to the plays and poems, and why we continue to read and perform them with this in mind.Topics and themes discussed include gendering madness, paternity and the patriarchy, sexuality, anxious masculinity, maternal bodies, gender transgression, and kingship and the male body politic.

339 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 23, 2020

Reviews

[gofri · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like the practical and theatrical aspects as well as the early modern extracts to which contemporary perspectives are added. Finally not only some far-fetched postfeminist approach, but also a reliable understanding of the Renaissance context.