1st Edition

Consent in Shakespeare’s Classical Mediterranean Women Speak Truth to Power

By Artemis Preeshl Copyright 2025
274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

Consent in Shakespeare’s Classical Mediterranean fills a gap in knowledge about how female-identified, gender-fluid, and non-binary characters made choices about intimacy, engagement, and marriage in Shakespeare’s classical Mediterranean plays. This classical sequel explores how female-identified, gender-fluid, and non-binary characters accessed agency in Shakespeare’s Mediterranean plays set... Read more

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements

 

Introduction


Chapter 1: Permission ≠ Consent: Prisoner Exchanged, Affirmative Consent Unchanged in Troilus and Cressida


Chapter 2: Street Rules in Coriolanus: (S)Mothering and Silenced Love in Coriolanus


Chapter 3: Ignoble Nobles: Consent in the Age of Pseudo-Chivalry in The Two Noble Kinsmen


Chapter 4: Roofied Wood: Drugs and BDSM in Reacquired Patriarchy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream


Chapter 5: Gold and Girls: Timon’s Attempted Murder by Sex in Athens


Chapter 6: Silenced Shades: Timing Revolt Against Oppression in The Winter’s Tale


Chapter 7: Losing to Win: The Peril of Virginity in Pericles, Prince of Tyre


Chapter 8: Private Discourse in Public Lives: Survival Equals Victory: Julius Caesar


Chapter 9: Othered Women: A Royal Brat Out-Cleopatra’s Herself in Antony and Cleopatra


Chapter 10: Symbolic Freedom: The Anglo-Roman Demi-Transition in Cymbeline


Chapter 11: No Laughing MacGuffin: Domestic Violence in a Carnivalesque of Errors


Chapter 12: Status Matters. Not!: The Inability of Ignobility in Titus Andronicus


Conclusion


Index

Biography

Artemis Preeshl is a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Theatre and professional director, actor, dialect and intimacy coach, and choreographer who has worked at Tulane University, Loyola University New Orleans, Elon University, the University of West Georgia, Utah State University, Buena Vista University, the Faculty of Creative and Artistic Technology at Universiti Teknologi MARA in Malaysia, and Kalakshetra Foundation, the University of Madras, and Central University of Tamil Nadu in India. She is the Director of the Center for Teaching, Innovation, and Research at Adams State University.