Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

Synopsis

'Engrossing, enlightening and hugely entertaining'SARAH WATERS, author of Fingersmith'Brilliant - so vivid and so sharp, fantastically clever and consistently fascinating'KATHERINE RUNDELL, author of Super-InfiniteWas Shakespeare gay? The answer is both simpler and more complex than you might think . . .Shakespeare's work was profoundly influenced by the queer culture of his time - much of it totally integrated into mainstream society. From a relentless schooling in Latin and Greek homoeroticism, to a less formal education on the streets and in smoky taverns, from the gender-bending of the early comedies to the astonishingly queer literary scene that nurtured Shakespeare's sonnets, this is a story of artistic development and of personal crisis.Straight Acting is a surprising portrait of Shakespeare's queer lives - his own and those in his plays and poems. It is a journey back in time and through Shakespeare's England, revealing a culture that both endorsed and supressed same-sex desire. It is a call to stop making Shakespeare act straight and to recognise how queerness powerfully shaped the life and career of the world's most famous playwright.'Magisterial and saucy . . . This fresh account kickstarts the queer canon of English literature: Shakespeare won't go back in the closet again'EMMA SMITH, author of This Is Shakespeare

Copyright:

2024

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781529390490

Related ISBNs:

9781529390476

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton

Date of Addition:

06/12/24

Copyrighted By:

Will Tosh

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Language Arts

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