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Shakespeare, sex and the print revolution / Gordon Williams

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Williams, Gordon, 1935-
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London ; Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Athlone, 1996.
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1 online resource (ix, 274 pages)
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Shakespearean Images and the Paradox of Print -- 1. Shakespearean Reputation -- 2. Performance versus Text -- 3. Censorship and Evasion -- 4. First Print Era: Reader-Spectator as Voyeur -- pt. II Shakespeare and the Classics -- 5. Roman Rapes -- 6. Sexual Temptresses -- 7. Trojan Whores -- 8. Cupid-Adonis: 'Prettie Boyes' and 'Unlawfull Joyes' -- 9. Pox and Gold: Timon's New World Heritage -- pt. III Sexual Reformation -- 10. Education of Women: Textual Authority or Sexual Licence -- 11. Othello, Cuckoldry and the Doctrine of Generality -- 12. Class and Courtship Ritual in Much Ado -- 13. Honest Whores, or the State as Brothel.
Summary
"This book investigates how the sexual element in Shakespeare's works is complicated and compromised by the impact of print. Whether the issue is one of censorship and evasion or sexual redefinition, the fact that Shakespeare wrote in the first century of popular print is crucial. Out of the newly-accessible classical canon he creates a reconstituted idea of the sexual temptress; and out of Counter-Reformation propaganda he fashions his own complex thinking about the prostitute. Shakespeare's theatrical scripts, meeting-ground for the spoken and written word, contribute powerfully to those socio-sexual debates which had been re-energized by print."--Jacket
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1847141455 (electronic bk.)
9781847141453 (electronic bk.)
9780485121216 (pbk.)
0485121212 (pbk.)
9780485114959
9781847141453
048511495X
048511495X (cased)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-266) and index.
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