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Desire and Anxiety (Routledge Revivals) Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama
By Valerie Traub
Copyright 1992
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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In both feminist theory and Shakespearean criticism, questions of sexuality have consistently been conflated with questions of gender. First published in 1992, this book details the intersections and contradictions between sexuality and gender in the early modern period. Valerie Traub argues that desire and anxiety together constitute the erotic in Shakespearean drama – circulating throughout the... Read more
Acknowledgements; Introduction: Talking about sexuality in Shakespeare; Part I: Erotic paranoia 1. Jewels, statues, and corpses: containment of female erotic power (Hamlet, Othello, The Winter’s Tale) 2. Prince Hal’s Falstaff: positioning psychoanalysis and the female reproductive body (Henry IV, parts 1 and 2, Henry V) 3. Invading bodies/bawdy exchanges: disease, desire, and representation (Troilus and Cressida); Part II: Erotic possibility 4. Desire and the differences it makes 5. The homoerotics of Shakespearean comedy (As You Like It, Twelfth Night); Afterword; Notes; Index
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Valerie Traub
