Shakespeare and Queer Representation

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-138-38961-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 227 g

Reihe: Spotlight on Shakespeare

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.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guy-Bray, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Cymbeline 2. King John 3. Macbeth 4 The Rape of Lucrece 5. The Sonnets 6. Venus and Adonis Coda

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Guy-Bray is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada.