Looking for Sex in ShakespeareCambridge University Press, 22 Nis 2004 - 111 sayfa Stanley Wells is one of the best-known and most versatile of Shakespeare scholars. His new book, written with characteristic verve and accessibility, considers how far sexual meaning in Shakespeare's writing is a matter of interpretation by actors, directors and critics. Tracing interpretations of Shakespearean bawdy and innuendo from eighteenth-century editors to recent scholars and critics, Wells pays special attention to recent sexually orientated studies of A Midsummer Night's Dream, once regarded as the most innocent of its author's plays. He considers the Sonnets, some of which are addressed to a man, and asks whether they imply same-sex desire in the author, or are quasi-dramatic projections of the writer's imagination. Finally, he looks at how male-to-male relationships in the plays have been interpreted as sexual in both criticism and performance. Stanley Wells's lively, provocative, and open-minded new book will appeal to a broad readership of students, theatregoers and Shakespeare lovers. |
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... mind . Those who attended the lectures and asked afterwards for transcripts ( and the many who were unable to secure a ticket ) will be grateful to Sarah Stanton for promoting the idea of a publication to Cambridge University Press ...
... mind . Those who attended the lectures and asked afterwards for transcripts ( and the many who were unable to secure a ticket ) will be grateful to Sarah Stanton for promoting the idea of a publication to Cambridge University Press ...
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... minds of the interpreters than of the dramatist . When , it asks , do sexual interpretations proceed from what would once have been considered the ' dirty minds ' of the interpreters rather than from the imaginations of the dramatist ...
... minds of the interpreters than of the dramatist . When , it asks , do sexual interpretations proceed from what would once have been considered the ' dirty minds ' of the interpreters rather than from the imaginations of the dramatist ...
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Stanley Wells. The meanings of works of art are stimulated and guided by the mind of the artist but exist finally only in the minds of those who experience them . The performative arts are peculiarly sus- ceptible to variation because ...
Stanley Wells. The meanings of works of art are stimulated and guided by the mind of the artist but exist finally only in the minds of those who experience them . The performative arts are peculiarly sus- ceptible to variation because ...
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... mind of the author as he wrote ? Is it , on the other hand , impossible to deny them ? How free can we be in our handling of texts from the past ? Nahum Tate's drasti- cally adapted version of King Lear ( 1681 ) and Colley Cibber's of ...
... mind of the author as he wrote ? Is it , on the other hand , impossible to deny them ? How free can we be in our handling of texts from the past ? Nahum Tate's drasti- cally adapted version of King Lear ( 1681 ) and Colley Cibber's of ...
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... minds different from his own ? The second chapter in this book addresses these questions in part by looking at Shakespeare's collection in relation to other sonnet sequences of his time . It does not attempt to deny that poems , like ...
... minds different from his own ? The second chapter in this book addresses these questions in part by looking at Shakespeare's collection in relation to other sonnet sequences of his time . It does not attempt to deny that poems , like ...
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Lewd interpreters | 10 |
The originality of Shakespeares sonnets | 38 |
I think he loves the world only for him men loving men in Shakespeares plays | 66 |
Notes | 97 |
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