Looking for sex in Shakespeare
"Stanley Wells' new book considers how far sexual meaning in Shakespeare's writing is a matter of interpretation by actors, directors and critics. Tracing interpretations of Shakespearian bawdy and innuendo from eighteenth-century editors to modern scholars and critics, Wells plays special attention to recent sexually oriented 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 book will appeal to a broad readership of students, theatregoers and Shakespeare lovers."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2004
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2004
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 111 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780521832847, 9780521832847, 9780521540391, 0521832845, 0521832845, 0521540399
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