Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment - Gender, Sexuality, and Race

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 42 of the most important scholars and writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on the methods of historicism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and posthumanism, a team of international experts discuss Shakespeare's life, contemporary editing practices, and performance of his plays on stage, on screen, and in the classroom. This theoretically sophisticated yet elegantly written Handbook includes an editor's Introduction that provides a comprehensive overview of current debates.

List of contents

• 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: Spectres 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: Bruised with Adversity: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors


• 11: Emily C. Bartels: Identifying 'the Dane': Gender and Race in Hamlet


• 12: Jean E. Feerick: The Imperial Graft: Horticulture, Hybridity, and the Art of Mingling Races in Henry V and Cymbeline


• 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 E. 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 D. Harvey: Passionate Spirits: Animism and Embodiment in Cymbeline and The Tempest


• 22: Mario DiGangi: Entangled Agency: The Assassin's Conscience in Richard III and King John


• 23: Amanda Bailey: Personification and the Political Imagination of A Midsummer Night's Dream


• 24: Gina Bloom: Time to Cheat: Chess and The Tempest's Performative History of Dynastic Marriage


• 25: Tobin Siebers: Shakespeare Differently Disabled


• 26: Vin Nardizzi: Disability Figures in Shakespeare


• 27: Marjorie Rubright: Incorporating Kate: The Myth of Monolingualism in Shakespea

  About the author

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  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 (Cambridge University Press, 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 (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects (Cambridge University Press, 1996). Her current project is Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: A Prehistory of Normality.
  
  
  

  Summary

  The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 42 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.

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  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.

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  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. Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

Product details

• Authors: Valerie (Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor Traub
• Assisted by: Valerie Traub (Editor), Valerie (Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies Traub (Editor), Traub Valerie (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780198820406
• ISBN: 978-0-19-882040-6
• No. of pages: 816
• Series: Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity