“I AM NOT WHAT I AM!” : A QUEER CRITIQUE OF SHAKESPEARE

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Publisher : KY Publications
ISBN 13 : 9387769631
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (877 download)

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Book Synopsis “I AM NOT WHAT I AM!” : A QUEER CRITIQUE OF SHAKESPEARE by : Heavenly Joy

Download or read book “I AM NOT WHAT I AM!” : A QUEER CRITIQUE OF SHAKESPEARE written by Heavenly Joy and published by KY Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Shakespeare a queer? Why is cross-dressing a recurrent theme in his exceptional plays like The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Cymbeline, The Taming of the Shrew and The Merry Wives of Windsor as well as his sonnets? This book provides insights into this dilemma, though the answer lies far beyond centuries..

Shakesqueer

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822348454
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakesqueer by : Madhavi Menon

Download or read book Shakesqueer written by Madhavi Menon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare. Exploring what is odd, eccentric, and unexpected in the Bard’s plays and poems, these theorists highlight not only the many ways that Shakespeare can be queered but also the many ways that Shakespeare can enrich queer theory. This innovative anthology reveals an early modern playwright insistently returning to questions of language, identity, and temporality, themes central to contemporary queer theory. Since many of the contributors do not study early modern literature, Shakesqueer takes queer theory back and brings Shakespeare forward, challenging the chronological confinement of queer theory to the last two hundred years. The book also challenges conceptual certainties that have narrowly equated queerness with homosexuality. Chasing all manner of stray desires through every one of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, the contributors cross temporal, animal, theoretical, and sexual boundaries with abandon. Claiming adherence to no one school of thought, the essays consider The Winter’s Tale alongside network TV, Hamlet in relation to the death drive, King John as a history of queer theory, and Much Ado About Nothing in tune with a Sondheim musical. Together they expand the reach of queerness and queer critique across chronologies, methodologies, and bodies. Contributors. Matt Bell, Amanda Berry, Daniel Boyarin, Judith Brown, Steven Bruhm, Peter Coviello, Julie Crawford, Drew Daniel, Mario DiGangi, Lee Edelman, Jason Edwards, Aranye Fradenburg, Carla Freccero, Daniel Juan Gil, Jonathan Goldberg, Jody Greene, Stephen Guy-Bray, Ellis Hanson, Sharon Holland, Cary Howie, Lynne Huffer, Barbara Johnson, Hector Kollias, James Kuzner , Arthur L. Little Jr., Philip Lorenz, Heather Love, Jeffrey Masten, Robert McRuer , Madhavi Menon, Michael Moon, Paul Morrison, Andrew Nicholls, Kevin Ohi, Patrick R. O’Malley, Ann Pellegrini, Richard Rambuss, Valerie Rohy, Bethany Schneider, Kathryn Schwarz, Laurie Shannon, Ashley T. Shelden, Alan Sinfield, Bruce Smith, Karl Steel, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Amy Villarejo, Julian Yates

Queer Shakespeare

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474295274
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis Queer Shakespeare by : Goran Stanivukovic

Download or read book Queer Shakespeare written by Goran Stanivukovic and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality draws together 13 essays, which offer a major reassessment of the criticism of desire, body and sexuality in Shakespeare's drama and poetry. Bringing together some of the most prominent critics working at the intersection of Shakespeare criticism and queer theory, this collection demonstrates the vibrancy of queer Shakespeare studies. Taken together, these essays explore embodiment, desire, sexuality and gender as key objects of analyses, producing concepts and ideas that draw critical energy from focused studies of time, language and nature. The Afterword extends these inquiries by linking the Anthropocene and queer ecology with Shakespeare criticism. Works from Shakespeare's entire canon feature in essays which explore topics like glass, love, antitheatrical homophobia, size, narrative, sound, female same-sex desire and Petrarchism, weather, usury and sodomy, male femininity and male-to-female crossdressing, contagion, and antisocial procreation.

Shakespeare and Queer Theory

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474256694
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Queer Theory by : Melissa E. Sanchez

Download or read book Shakespeare and Queer Theory written by Melissa E. Sanchez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and Queer Theory is an indispensable guide on the ongoing critical debates about queer method both within and beyond Shakespeare and early modern studies. Clearly elucidating the central ideas of the theory, the field's historical emergence from feminist and gay and lesbian studies within the academy, and political activism related to the AIDS crisis beyond it, it also illuminates current debates about historicism and embodiment. Through a series of original readings of texts including Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and Venus and Adonis, as well as film adaptations of early modern drama including Derek Jarman's The Tempest and Edward II, Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, and Julie Taymor's Titus, it illustrates the value of queer theory to Shakespeare scholarship, and the value of Shakespearean texts to queer theory.

Unhistorical Shakespeare

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230614574
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Unhistorical Shakespeare by : M. Menon

Download or read book Unhistorical Shakespeare written by M. Menon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unhistorical Shakespeare argues against the ideas of difference that underpin historicist studies of the past and its desires, offering, instead, the idea of homo-history to engage with issues of narcissism, anachronism, and recursiveness in conjunction with sexual desire.

The Quest for Shakespeare

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Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681495341
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Book Synopsis The Quest for Shakespeare by : Joseph Pearce

Download or read book The Quest for Shakespeare written by Joseph Pearce and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly regarded and best-selling literary writer and teacher, Joseph Pearce presents a stimulating and vivid biography of the world's most revered writer that is sure to be controversial. Unabashedly provocative, with scholarship, insight and keen observation, Pearce strives to separate historical fact from fiction about the beloved Bard. Shakespeare is not only one of the greatest figures in human history, he is also one of the most controversial and one of the most elusive. He is famous and yet almost unknown. Who was he? What were his beliefs? Can we really understand his plays and his poetry if we don't know the man who wrote them? These are some of the questions that are asked and answered in this gripping and engaging study of the world's greatest ever poet. The Quest for Shakespeare claims that books about the Bard have got him totally wrong. They misread the man and misread the work. The true Shakespeare has eluded the grasp of the critics. Dealing with the facts of Shakespeare's life and times, Pearce's quest leads to the inescapable conclusion that Shakespeare was a believing Catholic living in very anti-Catholic times. Many of his friends and family were persecuted, and even executed, for their Catholic faith. And yet he seems to have avoided any notable persecution himself. How did he do this? How did he respond to the persecution of his friends and family? What did he say about the dreadful and intolerant times in which he found himself? The Quest for Shakespeare answers these questions in ways that will enlighten and astonish those who love Shakespeare's work, and that will shock and outrage many of his critics. This book is full of surprises for beginner and expert alike.

Shakespeare and Queer Representation

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429753098
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Queer Representation by : Stephen Guy-Bray

Download or read book Shakespeare and Queer Representation written by Stephen Guy-Bray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging and accessible guidebook, Stephen Guy-Bray uses queer theory to argue that in many of Shakespeare’s works representation itself becomes queer. Shakespeare often uses representation, not just as a lens through which to tell a story, but as a textual tool in itself. Shakespeare and Queer Representation includes a thorough introduction that discusses how we can define queer representation, with each chapter developing these theories to examine works that span the entire career of Shakespeare, including his sonnets, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, King John, Macbeth, and Cymbeline. The book highlights the extent to which Shakespeare’s works can be seen to anticipate, and even to extend, many of the insights of the latest developments in queer theory. This thought-provoking and evocative book is an essential guide for students studying Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, gender studies, and queer literary theory.

Lady Romeo

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501199536
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Lady Romeo by : Tana Wojczuk

Download or read book Lady Romeo written by Tana Wojczuk and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Finalist for the Marfield Prize For fans of Book of Ages and American Eve, this “lively, illuminating new biography” (The Boston Globe) of 19th-century queer actress Charlotte Cushman portrays a “brisk, beautifully crafted life” (Stacy Schiff, bestselling author of The Witches and Cleopatra) that riveted New York City and made headlines across America. All her life, Charlotte Cushman refused to submit to others’ expectations. Raised in Boston at the time of the transcendentalists, a series of disasters cleared the way for her life on the stage—a path she eagerly took, rejecting marriage and creating a life of adventure, playing the role of the hero in and out of the theater as she traveled to New Orleans and New York City, and eventually to London and back to build a successful career. Her Hamlet, Romeo, Lady Macbeth, and Nancy Sykes from Oliver Twist became canon, impressing Louisa May Alcott, who later based a character on her in Jo’s Boys, and Walt Whitman, who raved about “the towering grandeur of her genius” in his columns for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. She acted alongside Edwin and John Wilkes Booth—supposedly giving the latter a scar on his neck that was later used to identify him as President Lincoln’s assassin—and visited frequently with the Great Emancipator himself, who was a devoted Shakespeare fan and admirer of Cushman’s work. Her wife immortalized her in the angel at the top of Central Park’s Bethesda Fountain; worldwide, she was “a lady universally acknowledged as the greatest living tragic actress.” Behind the scenes, she was equally radical, making an independent income, supporting her family, creating one of the first bohemian artists’ colonies abroad, and living publicly as a queer woman. And yet, her name has since faded into the shadows. Now, her story comes to brilliant life with Tana Wojczuk’s Lady Romeo, an exhilarating and enlightening biography of the 19th-century trailblazer. With new research and rarely seen letters and documents, Wojczuk reconstructs the formative years of Cushman’s life, set against the excitement and drama of 1800s New York City and featuring a cast of luminaries and revolutionaries who changed the cultural landscape of America forever. The story of an astonishing and uniquely American life, Lady Romeo reveals one of the most remarkable forgotten figures in our history and restores her to center stage, where she belongs.

The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life

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Publisher : Second Story Press
ISBN 13 : 1772601225
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (726 download)

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Book Synopsis The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life by : Dani Jansen

Download or read book The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life written by Dani Jansen and published by Second Story Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alison Green, desperate Valedictorian-wannabe, agrees to produce her school’s disaster-prone production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Her second big mistake is accidentally saying yes to a date with her oldest friend, Jack, even though she’s crushing on Charlotte, the star of the play.

Lady Hotspur

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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008281955
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)

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Book Synopsis Lady Hotspur by : Tessa Gratton

Download or read book Lady Hotspur written by Tessa Gratton and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tessa Gratton's latest epic adult fantasy, Lady Hotspur, is a sweeping, heart-stopping Shakespearean novel of betrayal and battlefields and destiny.

Shakespeare's Queer Children

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719046582
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (465 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Queer Children by : Kate Chedgzoy

Download or read book Shakespeare's Queer Children written by Kate Chedgzoy and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Shakespeare is not the exclusive possession of any one social group or cultural formation, but has provided an enabling and empowering resource which has allowed 'other' radical voices to be heard.

A Fairly Honourable Defeat

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780141186177
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (861 download)

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Book Synopsis A Fairly Honourable Defeat by : Iris Murdoch

Download or read book A Fairly Honourable Defeat written by Iris Murdoch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of love and its excesses, missteps, and modest triumphs, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea In a dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties. As puppet master, Julius artfully plays on the human tendency to embrace drama and intrigue and to prefer the distraction of confrontations to the difficult effort of communicating openly and honestly. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Queens of Innis Lear

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Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 0765392488
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book The Queens of Innis Lear written by Tessa Gratton and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynasties battle for the crown in Tessa Gratton's debut adult epic fantasy, The Queens of Innis Lear. Three Queens. One crown. All out war. Gaela. Ruthless Commander. I am the rightful heir of Innis Lear. No more will I wait in the shadows and watch my mother’s murderer bleed my island dry. The King’s hold on the crown must end—willingly or at the edge of my sword. Regan. Master Manipulator. To secure my place on the throne, I must produce an heir. Countless times I have fed the island’s forests my blood. Yet, my ambition is cursed. No matter what or whom I must destroy, I will wield the magic of Innis Lear. Elia. Star-blessed Priest. My sisters hide in the shadows like serpents, waiting to strike our ailing king. I must protect my father, even if it means marrying a stranger. We all have to make sacrifices. Love and freedom will be mine. "Amazing. Just Amazing."--Robin McKinley At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Through Shakespeare's Eyes

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Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1586174134
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (861 download)

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Book Synopsis Through Shakespeare's Eyes by : Joseph Pearce

Download or read book Through Shakespeare's Eyes written by Joseph Pearce and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearce analyzes three of Shakespeare's immortal plays in order to uncover evidence of the Bard's Catholic beliefs.

Shakespeare and Social Theory

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032017174
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Social Theory by : BRADD. SHORE

Download or read book Shakespeare and Social Theory written by BRADD. SHORE and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a bridge between Shakespeare Studies and classical social theory, opening up readings of Shakespeare to a new audience outside of literary studies and the humanities. Shakespeare has long been known as a 'great thinker' and this book reads his plays through the lens of an anthropologist, revealing new connections between Shakespeare's plays and the lives we now lead. Close readings of a selection of frequently studied plays - Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar and King Lear - engage with the plays in detail while connecting them with some of the biggest questions we all ask ourselves, about love, friendship, ritual, language, human interactions and the world around us. The plays are examined through various social theories including performance theory, cognitive theory, semiotics, exchange theory and structuralism. The book concludes with a consideration of how "the new astronomy" of his day and developments in optics changed the very idea of "perspective," and shaped Shakespeare's approach to embedding social theory in his dramatic texts. This accessible and engaging book will appeal to those approaching Shakespeare from outside literary studies, but will also be valuable to literature students approaching Shakespeare for the first time, or looking for a new angle on the plays.

No Way, They Were Gay?

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Publisher : Zest Books TM
ISBN 13 : 1728427584
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (284 download)

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Book Synopsis No Way, They Were Gay? by : Lee Wind

Download or read book No Way, They Were Gay? written by Lee Wind and published by Zest Books TM. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "History" sounds really official. Like it's all fact. Like it's definitely what happened. But that's not necessarily true. History was crafted by the people who recorded it. And sometimes, those historians were biased against, didn't see, or couldn't even imagine anyone different from themselves. That means that history has often left out the stories of LGBTQIA+ people: men who loved men, women who loved women, people who loved without regard to gender, and people who lived outside gender boundaries. Historians have even censored the lives and loves of some of the world's most famous people, from William Shakespeare and Pharaoh Hatshepsut to Cary Grant and Eleanor Roosevelt. Join author Lee Wind for this fascinating journey through primary sources—poetry, memoir, news clippings, and images of ancient artwork—to explore the hidden (and often surprising) Queer lives and loves of two dozen historical figures.

Shakespeare's Bawdy

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134522096
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Bawdy by : Eric Partridge

Download or read book Shakespeare's Bawdy written by Eric Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work sold with continued success in its original format This new edition will attract review coverage and is appearing in the Autumn Partridge Promotion Foreword by Stanley Wells - General editor of `Oxford Shakespeare'