Presentism, Gender, and Sexuality in Shakespeare

Name: Presentism, Gender, and Sexuality in Shakespeare
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ISBN: 9780230223837

ISBN-10: 0230223834

ISBN-13: 9780230223837

Edition: 2009

Authors: Evelyn Gajowski, Evelyn Gajowski

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Description:

This collection of essays by an international group of prominent scholars explores, for the first time, the implications of presentism for issues of sexual orientation and gender in Shakespeares texts. It offers crucial insights into our present professional, theoretical, political, and social moment, as well as readings of particular texts.

Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 11/27/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 294
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Evelyn Gajowski is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements


Notes on Contributors


Introduction




Theoretical Frameworks


Resexing Lady Macbeth's Gender and Ours



Dated and Outdated: The Present Tense of Feminist Shakespeare Criticism




Politics/war


"Mirror[s] of all Christian kings": Hank Cinq and George Deux



Ventriloquized Sentimentality, or, The Theory and Practice of Women in War



A Presentist Analysis of Joan, la Pucelle: Whats past and whats to come she can Descry







"Youll be the man!": Homophobia and the Present in Performances of Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet



"My hand is ready, may it do him ease": Shakespeare and the Theatre of Display



"Through the Eyes of the Present": Screening the Male Homoerotics of Shakespearean Drama



Estranging Bedfellows: Early Modern Cinema Today




Uncivil Unions


Uncivil Unions



"A Local Habitation and a Name": Presence, Witnessing, and Queer Marriage in Shakespeares Romantic Comedies



Afterword--"The future in the instant"



Works Cited Index