1st Edition

Shakespeare on Consent

By Amanda Bailey Copyright 2023
210 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Choice is the defining issue of the twenty-first century. As the #MeToo movement extends its legal, social, and political reach around the world, the topic of consent has come under particular scrutiny. Shakespeare on Consent examines crises of consent on the early modern stage and argues that these dramatizations provide a framework for understanding the intersections of coercion, complicity,... Read more
Acknowledgements

Preface

INTRODUCTION: Equity Without Justice

CH 1: Rape of a Nation

CH 2: Stamped by Shame

CH 3: While You Were Sleeping

CH 4: I May Destroy You

CH 5: Make Sex Great Again

CH 6: Weinstein in Love

CODA: Refusal is the First Right

Index

Biography

Amanda Bailey is Professor and Chair of English at the University of Maryland, USA. Her publications include Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts: Politics, Ecologies, and Form (co-edited with Mario DiGangi, 2017), Of Bondage: Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England (2013), Masculinity and the Metropolis of Vice, 15501650 (co-edited with Roze Hentschell, 2010) and Flaunting: Style and the Subversive Male Body in Renaissance England (2007; 2019).