Description
Book SynopsisChoice is the defining issue of the twenty-first century. As the #MeToo movement extends its legal, social, and political reach around the world, the topic of consent has come under particular scrutiny. Shakespeare on Consent examines crises of consent on the early modern stage and argues that these dramatizations provide a framework for understanding the intersections of coercion, complicity, resistance, and agency.
Beginning with the premise that consent serves as a lever of entitlement, Amanda Bailey introduces a Shakespeare well aware that liberal selfhood has never been universally available. Bailey brings Shakespeare's work into conversation with the Penn State Sandusky scandal, the Bill ClintonMonica Lewinsky affair, the rise of somnophilia, Jordan Peele's documentary on Lorena Bobbitt, Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Harvey Weinstein's Shakespeare in Love, amongst others. Bailey considers who is denied access to the apparatus of consent, u
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
INTRODUCTION: Equity Without Justice
CH 1: Rape of a Nation
CH 2: Stamped by Shame
CH 3: While You Were Sleeping
CH 4: I May Destroy You
CH 5: Make Sex Great Again
CH 6: Weinstein in Love
CODA: Refusal is the First Right
Index
