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Title:
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LOOKING FOR SEX IN SHAKESPEARE
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By: |
Stanley W. Wells |
Format: |
Paperback |

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ISBN 10: |
0521540399 |
ISBN 13: |
9780521540391 |
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Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
22 April, 2004 |
Pages: |
124 |
Description: |
Considers how far sexual meaning in Shakespeare's writing is a matter of interpretation by actors, directors and critics |
Synopsis: |
Stanley Wells is one of the best-known and most versatile of Shakespeare scholars. This book, written with characteristic verve and accessibility, considers how far sexual meaning in Shakespeare's writing is a matter of interpretation by actors, directors and critics. Tracing interpretations of Shakespearean bawdy and innuendo from eighteenth-century editors to recent scholars and critics, Wells pays special attention to recent sexually orientated studies of A Midsummer Night's Dream, once regarded as the most innocent of its author's plays. He considers the Sonnets, some of which are addressed to a man, and asks whether they imply same-sex desire in the author, or are quasi-dramatic projections of the writer's imagination. Finally, he looks at how male-to-male relationships in the plays have been interpreted as sexual in both criticism and performance. Stanley Wells's lively, provocative, and open-minded book will appeal to a broad readership of students, theatregoers and Shakespeare lovers. |
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14 b/w illus. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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