Shakespeare on Consent

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-367-18453-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 226 g

Reihe: Spotlight on Shakespeare

Choice 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 Clinton–Monica 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, under what circumstances, and how consent is vitiated by race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and gender.

Shakespeare on Consent is a wake-up call for all implicated in the injurious outcomes of consent and will inspire those wanting to mobilize choice in the service of social and political transformation.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bailey, Amanda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Amanda Bailey is Professor and Chair of English at the University of Maryland, USA. Her publications include Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts: Politics, Ecologies, and Form (co-edited with Mario DiGangi, 2017), Of Bondage: Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England (2013), Masculinity and the Metropolis of Vice, 1550–1650 (co-edited with Roze Hentschell, 2010) and Flaunting: Style and the Subversive Male Body in Renaissance England (2007; 2019).