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Consent in Shakespeare's Classical Mediterranean fills a gap in knowledge about how female-identified and non-binary characters made choices about intimacy, engagement, and marriage in Shakespeare's classical Mediterranean plays.
List of contents
ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction
Chapter 1: Permission ¿ Consent: Prisoner Exchanged, Affirmative Consent Unchanged in
Troilus and CressidaChapter 2:
Street Rules in Coriolanus: (S)Mothering and Silenced Love in
CoriolanusChapter 3: Ignoble Nobles: Consent in the Age of Pseudo-Chivalry in
The Two Noble KinsmenChapter 4: Roofied Wood: Drugs and BDSM in Reacquired Patriarchy in
A Midsummer Night's DreamChapter 5: Gold and Girls: Timon's Attempted Murder by Sex in Athens
Chapter 6: Silenced Shades: Timing Revolt Against Oppression in
The Winter's TaleChapter 7: Losing to Win: The Peril of Virginity in
Pericles, Prince of TyreChapter 8: Private Discourse in Public Lives: Survival Equals Victory:
Julius CaesarChapter 9: Othered Women: A Royal Brat Out-Cleopatra's Herself in
Antony and CleopatraChapter 10: Symbolic Freedom: The Anglo-Roman Demi-Transition in
CymbelineChapter 11: No Laughing MacGuffin: Domestic Violence in a Carnivalesque of
ErrorsChapter 12: Status Matters. Not!: The Inability of Ignobility in
Titus AndronicusConclusion
Index
About the author
Artemis Preeshl is a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Theatre and professional director, actor, dialect and intimacy coach, and choreographer who has worked at Tulane University, Loyola University New Orleans, Elon University, the University of West Georgia, Utah State University, Buena Vista University, the Faculty of Creative and Artistic Technology at Universiti Teknologi MARA in Malaysia, and Kalakshetra Foundation, the University of Madras, and Central University of Tamil Nadu in India. She is the Director of the Center for Teaching, Innovation, and Research at Adams State University.
Summary
Consent in Shakespeare’s Classical Mediterranean fills a gap in knowledge about how female-identified and non-binary characters made choices about intimacy, engagement, and marriage in Shakespeare’s classical Mediterranean plays.
