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Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature before Heterosexuality

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  • © 2007

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  1. Rebecca Ann Bach
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Before Heterosexuality

    • Rebecca Ann Bach
    Pages 1-24

  3. The Homosocial King Lear: Sex, Men, and Women before the Valorization of Lust and Greed

    • Rebecca Ann Bach
    Pages 25-47

  4. Restoration Shakespeare 1: Adultery and the Birth of Heterosexuality

    • Rebecca Ann Bach
    Pages 49-80

  5. Restoration Shakespeare 2: Friends and Libertines

    • Rebecca Ann Bach
    Pages 81-105

  6. “Domestic Tragedy” and Emerging Heterosexuality

    • Rebecca Ann Bach
    Pages 107-151

  7. Othello in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and the Colonial Origins of Heterosexuality

    • Rebecca Ann Bach
    Pages 153-182

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 183-243
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About this book

Shakespeare has been misread for centuries as having modern ideas about sex and gender.This book shows how in the Restoration and Eighteenth century, Shakespeare's plays and other Renaissance texts were adapted to make them conform to these modern ideas.Through readings of Shakespearean texts, including King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, and Othello, and other Renaissance drama, the book reveals a sexual world before heterosexuality. Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature Before Heterosexuality shows how revisions and criticism of Renaissance drama contributed to the emergence of heterosexuality.It also shows how changing ideas about status, adultery, friendship, and race were factors in that emergence.

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"Overall this text is lively and thought-provoking, and is a welcome contribution to the growing body of work on sexual representation and its history." - Comparative Drama"This provocative and interesting book will draw readers' attention to a wide range of Restoration and eighteenth-century texts with which many will be unfamiliar. The book successfully estranges the Renaissance and helps us to see heterosexual attachments as distrusted, branded as sinful, pursued as criminal. Bach also shows us, in detail, the process by which the Restoration and eighteenth century rewrote the Renaissance. This is a rich, thought-provoking, valuable book." - Frances E. Dolan, University of California, Davis

About the author

REBECCA ANN BACH is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.

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