Shakespeare and Gender : Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare's Drama by Ailsa ...

Shakespeare and GenderSex and Sexuality in Shakespeares Drama\nAuthor(s): Kate Aughterson, Ailsa Grant Ferguson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Arden Shakespeare\nISBN-13: 9781474289979, 978-1474289979\nSynopsis\nShakespeare and Gender guides students, educators, practitioners and researchers through the complexities of the representation of gender and sexuality in Shakespeares work. Informed by contemporary and early modern debates and insights into gender and sexuality, including intersectionality, feminist geography, queer and performance studies and fourth-wave feminism, this book provides a lucid and lively discussion of how gender and sexual identity are debated, contested and displayed in Shakespeares plays and sonnets. Using close textual analysis hand-in- hand with diverse contextual materials, the book offers an accessible and intelligent introduction to how gender debates are integral to the plays and poems, and wh.