Shakespeare and Renaissance literature before heterosexuality
Rebecca Ann Bach
1st ed
New York
Palgrave Macmillan
2008
xi, 243 p. 22 cm
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616
English drama
Heterosexuality in literature
English drama
Heterosexuality
Sex in literature
Adultery in literature
Lust in literature
PR
658
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H44B33
2008
Bach, Rebecca Ann
Includes bibliographical references )p. ]211[-235( and index.
Introduction: Before heterosexuality -- The homosocial King Lear: sex, men, and women before the valorization of lust and greed -- Restoration Shakespeare 1: adultery and the birth of heterosexuality -- Restoration Shakespeare 2: friends and libertines -- "Domestic tragedy" and emerging heterosexuality -- Othello in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the colonial origins of heterosexuality