{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-gender-9781474289979","title":"Shakespeare and Gender","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Gender\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume provides a thoughtful approach to a wide range of relevant issues through a combination of close reading, contextual non-fiction materials, and attention to recent performance and film.  It will give students the tools they need to engage with the plays and will encourage them to make their own connections across traditional genres and periods. * Ann Thompson, King's College London, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThis book revitalizes Shakespeare for contemporary readers. Its case study format situates the plays in both early modern and current performance contexts, setting up an urgent, ongoing dialogue between ideas of sex and gender available to Shakespeare and to us.  Teachers and students alike will find it indispensable. * Coppélia Kahn, Professor Emerita of English, Brown University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eReading \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Gender: Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare's Drama\u003c\/i\u003e constitutes a rewarding experience. Aughterson and Grant Ferguson write in a style that is both clear and didactic, which significantly contributes to engage readers from the very first page. * Sederi Yearbook *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations   Acknowledgements     \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003cb\u003eChapter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eone\u003c\/b\u003e The Woman’s Voice   Key Text: \u003ci\u003eMuch Ado About Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e, with \u003ci\u003eThe Winter’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eChapter two\u003c\/b\u003e Kingship and the Male Body politic   Key Text:  \u003ci\u003eRichard II\u003c\/i\u003e, with \u003ci\u003eHenry IV\u003c\/i\u003e part I, \u003ci\u003eHenry V\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRichard III\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eInterlude\u003c\/b\u003e: Interview with Adjoa Andoh   \u003cb\u003eChapter three\u003c\/b\u003e Testing the Marriage Plot: Form, Violence and Gender   Key Texts: \u003ci\u003eThe Taming of the Shrew,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMuch Ado About Nothing, All’s Well that ends Well\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter four\u003c\/b\u003e Cross-dressing and Gender Transgression(s) Key Texts: \u003ci\u003eTwelfth Night \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAs You Like It\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eInterlude\u003c\/b\u003e: Interview with Lucy Phelps   \u003cb\u003eChapter five\u003c\/b\u003e Gendering Madness  Key Text: \u003ci\u003eHamlet,\u003c\/i\u003e with \u003ci\u003eTwo Noble Kinsmen\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eChapter six\u003c\/b\u003e Paternity and Patriarchy  Key Text: \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e, with \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter seven\u003c\/b\u003e Sexual Excess: Space, Sex and Gender   Key Texts: \u003ci\u003eComedy of Errors\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMeasure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter eight\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnxious Masculinity\u003c\/i\u003e  Key Texts: \u003ci\u003eLove’s Labour’s Lost\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Othello\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCymbeline\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Winter’s Tale, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter nine\u003c\/b\u003e Maternal Bodies: Female Powers  Key Texts: \u003ci\u003eHenry VI\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e All’s Well That Ends Well\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Winter’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eReferences\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019913724247,"sku":"9781474289979","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474289979.jpg?v=1750781710","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shakespeare-and-gender-9781474289979","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}