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Zusatztext the volume's forty-three contributors can trace a feminism whose theoretical and historical concerns intersect with other identity-based critical approaches such as queer theory, critical race theory, disability studies, animal studies, and postcolonial studies, as well as historical phenomenology and the new materialism. As this suggests, the volume makes a particularly urgent and timely contribution to our field. Informationen zum Autor Valerie Traub is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan and an award winning author and teacher. She is the author of The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (CUP, 2002), Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (Routledge, 1992; rpt 2014), and most recently Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns (Pennsylvania University Press, 2015). She co-edited Gay Shame (2009) and Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects (CUP, 1996). Her current project is Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: A Prehistory of Normality. Klappentext The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 40 of the most important scholars writing on the subject today. They explore representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion, and consider Shakespeare's life, contemporary editing practices, and the performance of his plays. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 40 of the most important scholars writing on the subject today. They explore representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion, and consider Shakespeare's life, contemporary editing practices, and the performance of his plays. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Valerie Traub: Introduction: Feminist Shakespeare Studies: Cross Currents, Border Crossings, Conflicts, and Contradictions Part I: The Lives of William Shakespeare 2: Lena Cowen Orlin: Shakespeare's Marriage 3: Alan Stewart: The Undocumented Lives of William Shakespeare Part II: Early Modern Women's Lives 4: Bernadette Andrea: Amazons, Turks, and Tartars in the Gesta Grayorum and The Comedy of Errors 5: Stephen Spiess: Puzzling Embodiment: Proclamation, La Pucelle, and The first Part of Henry VI' 6: Susan Frye: Specters of Female Sovereignty in Shakespeare's Plays 7: Wendy Wall: All's Well That Ends Well and Recipe Cultures of Knowledge Part III: Race and Ethnicity in Local and Transnational Contexts 8: M. Lindsay Kaplan: Constructing the Inferior Body: Medieval Theology in The Merchant of Venice 9: Ian Smith: The Textile Black Body: Race and 'shadowed livery' in The Merchant of Venice 10: Patricia Akhimie: Bruis'd with Adversity: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors 11: Emily Bartels: Identifying 'the Dane': Gender and Race in Hamlet 12: The Imperial Graft: Horticulture, Hybridity, and the Art of Mingling Races in Henry V and Cymbeline: Jean Feerick 13: Ania Loomba: Identities and Bodies in Early Modern Studies Part IV: Sexualities 14: Julie Crawford: Shakespeare. Same Sex. Marriage 15: Kathryn Schwarz: Comedies End in Marriage 16: Will Stockton: The Fierce Urgency of Now: Queer Theory, Presentism, and Romeo and Juliet 17: Melissa Sanchez: Impure Resistance: Heteroeroticism, Feminism, and Shakespearean Tragedy 18: Carol Thomas Neely: 'Strange Things in Hand': Perverse Pleasures and Erotic Triangles in The Merry Wives of Windsor 19: William Fisher: 'Stray[ing] lower where the pleasant fountains lie': Cunnilingus in Venus and Adonis and in English Culture, c.1600-1700 20: Karen Raber: Equeer: Human-Equine Erotics in 1 Henry IV Part V: Embodied Worlds, Reconfigured Agencies 21: Elizabeth Harvey: Passionate Spirits: Animism and Embodiment in Cymbeline and The Tempest 22: Mario DiGangi: Enta...
