Presentism, Gender, and Sexuality in Shakespeare

by Gajowski, Evelyn

• ISBN13: 9780230223837
• ISBN10: 0230223834
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection of essays by an international group of prominent scholars explores, for the first time, the implications of presentism for issues of sexual orientation and gender in Shakespeares texts. It offers crucial insights into our present professional, theoretical, political, and social moment, as well as readings of particular texts.

Author Biography

EVELYN GAJOWSKI has published two books on Shakespeare: Re-Visions of Shakespeare: Essays in Honor of Robert Ornstein and The Art of Loving: Female Subjectivity and Male Discursive Traditions in Shakespeares Tragedies. An active member of the Shakespeare Association of America and the International Shakespeare Association, she is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Theoretical Frameworks

Resexing Lady Macbeth's Gender and Ours

Dated and Outdated: The Present Tense of Feminist Shakespeare Criticism

Politics/war

"Mirror[s] of all Christian kings": Hank Cinq and George Deux

Ventriloquized Sentimentality, or, The Theory and Practice of Women in War

A Presentist Analysis of Joan, la Pucelle: Whats past and whats to come she can Descry

"Youll be the man!": Homophobia and the Present in Performances of Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet

"My hand is ready, may it do him ease": Shakespeare and the Theatre of Display

"Through the Eyes of the Present": Screening the Male Homoerotics of Shakespearean Drama

Estranging Bedfellows: Early Modern Cinema Today

Uncivil Unions

Uncivil Unions

"A Local Habitation and a Name": Presence, Witnessing, and Queer Marriage in Shakespeares Romantic Comedies

Afterword--"The future in the instant"

Works Cited Index

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