1st Edition

Shakespeare and Queer Representation

By Stephen Guy-Bray Copyright 2021
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

In this engaging and accessible guidebook, Stephen Guy-Bray uses queer theory to argue that in many of Shakespeare’s works representation itself becomes queer. Shakespeare often uses representation, not just as a lens through which to tell a story, but as a textual tool in itself. Shakespeare and Queer Representation includes a thorough introduction that discusses how we can define queer... Read more

Introduction  1. Cymbeline  2. King John  3. Macbeth  4 The Rape of Lucrece  5. The Sonnets  6. Venus and Adonis  Coda

Biography

Stephen Guy-Bray is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

‘Building on a rich body of recent criticism that finds in Shakespeare's oeuvre not only a passive object ripe for queer analysis but also an active model of queer theory itself, Stephen Guy-Bray's insightful Shakespeare and Queer Representation argues that artistic representation plays a disorienting, queer role in Shakespearean theater and poetry, exceeding its task of depicting some external or "natural" object in service of narrative progression.’ Christopher Yates, Shakespeare Quarterly