1st Edition
Consent in Shakespeare What Women Do and Don’t Say and Do in Shakespeare’s Mediterranean Comedies and Origin Stories
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Commodified Cates: Consent, Class, and Agency on the Marriage Market
2 Triangulating The Two Gentlemen: Maids Enable Gender Expression in Love
3 The Merchants of Love: White Privilege Shades Justice
4 Much Ado About Maidens: Women Restore Women to Society
5 Trussed Night: Expressing Gender Preferred, But Not Required, in Agency
6 All’s Well on Love’s Pilgrimage: Boundary Crossings between the Sheets
7 Measuring Consent: The Consequences of "Yes," "No," and "No, but…"
8 Women Around Othello: Status and the Race Card in Intimate Partner Violence
9 Tempestuous Powers: Gendered Relations Breed Agency in Unceded Land
Conclusion
Glossary
Index
Biography
Artemis Preeshl is a Fulbright Senior Theatre Specialist. An International Acting Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe, she has directed and performed in half of Shakespeare’s canon. She has taught voice, acting, movement and directing on five continents and on faculty at Loyola University New Orleans and Elon University.
