Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeares Plays by Alicia Andrzejewski - 9781032218649

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeares PlaysAuthor(s): Alicia Andrzejewski\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032218649, 978-1032218649\nSynopsis\nQueer Pregnancy in Shakespeares Plays addresses a conspicuous absence in queer readings of Shakespeares work: the pregnant body. Through discussions of A Midsummer Nights Dream, Titus Andronicus, Alls Well That Ends Well, Hamlet, and The Winters Tale, this book dismantles the heteronormative frameworks through which pregnancy continues to be read.\n\nIts chapters challenge the assumptions in queer theory that only straight women get pregnant, that every pregnancy ends in the birth of a healthy, legitimate child, and that pregnancy always reproduces the family in a recognizable form. These frameworks not only dull the transgressive force of pregnancy in Shakespeares work and the expansive ways in which early moderns thought about the pregnant body, but contribute to the erasure .