Shakespeare s Sexual Comedy

Shakespeare s Sexual Comedy
Author: Hugh M. Richmond
Publsiher: Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1971
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: UOM:39015004931138

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Discusses the sonnets, The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labours Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and others.

Sexuality in the Comedies of William Shakespeare

Sexuality in the Comedies of William Shakespeare
Author: Stephen P. Thompson
Publsiher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2014-04-25
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780737769821

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This fascinating edition examines the comedies of playwright William Shakespeare through the lens of sexuality. Essays explore topics such as the ambiguity of Shakespeare's sonnets, Renaissance attitudes toward sexuality, themes of misogyny in Taming of the Shrew, and sexual anxiety in Much Ado About Nothing. Modern perspectives on sexuality and courtship are also presented, covering subjects such as social media and dating, modern mythology about the differences between genders, and a decline in American romantic comedies.

Shakespeare Survey

Shakespeare Survey
Author: Kenneth Muir
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2002-11-28
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0521523702

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The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.

Shakespeare and Sexuality in the Comedy of Morecambe Wise

Shakespeare and Sexuality in the Comedy of Morecambe   Wise
Author: Stephen Hamrick
Publsiher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2020-02-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9783030339586

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Contextualizing the duo’s work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th Century’s most successful double-act. Over the course of a forty-four-year career (1940-1984), Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise appropriated snippets of verse, scenes, and other elements from seventeen of Shakespeare’s plays more than one-hundred-and-fifty times. Fashioning a kinder, more inclusive world, they deployed a vast array of elements connected to Shakespeare, his life, and institutions. Rejecting claims that they offer only nostalgic escapism, Hamrick analyses their work within contemporary contexts, including their engagement with many forms and genres, including Variety, the heritage industry, journalism, and more. ‘The Boys’ deploy Shakespeare to work through issues of class, sexuality, and violence. Lesbianism, drag, gay marriage, and a queer aesthetics emerge, helping to normalize homosexuality and complicate masculinity in the ‘permissive’ 1960s.

Shakespeare Sex and Love

Shakespeare  Sex  and Love
Author: Stanley Wells
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2010-04-08
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780199578597

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How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Pre-eminent Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and anecdotal sources to present an illuminating account of sexual behaviour in Shakespeare's time, particularly in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. He demonstrates what we know or can deduce of the sex lives of Shakespeare and members of his family. He also provides a fascinating account of depictions ofsexuality in the poetry of the period and suggests that at the time Shakespeare was writing most of his non-dramatic verse a group of poets catered especially for readers with homoerotic tastes.The second part of Shakespeare, Sex, - and Love focuses on the variety of ways in which Shakespeare treats sexuality in his plays and at how he relates sexuality to love. Wells shows that Shakespeare's attitude to sex developed over the course of his writing career, and devotes whole chapters to 'The Fun of Sex' - to how he raises laughter out of the matter of sex in both the language and the plotting of some of his comedies; portrayals of sexual desire; to Romeo and Julietas the play in which Shakespeare focuses most centrally on issues relating to sex, love, and the relationship between them; to sexual jealousy, traced through four major plays; 'Sexual Experience'; and 'Whores and Saints'. A final chapter, 'Just Good Friends' examines Shakespeare's rendering of same-genderrelationships.

Sexuality in the Comedies of William Shakespeare

Sexuality in the Comedies of William Shakespeare
Author: Stephen P. Thompson
Publsiher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2014-04-25
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780737769838

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This fascinating edition examines the comedies of playwright William Shakespeare through the lens of sexuality. Essays explore topics such as the ambiguity of Shakespeare's sonnets, Renaissance attitudes toward sexuality, themes of misogyny in Taming of the Shrew, and sexual anxiety in Much Ado About Nothing. Modern perspectives on sexuality and courtship are also presented, covering subjects such as social media and dating, modern mythology about the differences between genders, and a decline in American romantic comedies.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy
Author: Alexander Leggatt
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2002
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0521779421

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An accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies, dark comedies and romances, first published in 2001.

Shakespeare And Comedy

Shakespeare And Comedy
Author: Robert Maslen
Publsiher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2014-03-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781408143650

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Comedy was at the centre of a critical storm that raged throughout the early modern period. Shakespeare's plays made capital of this controversy. In them he deliberately invokes the case against comedy made by the Elizabethan theatre haters. They are filled with jokes that go too far, laughter that hurts its victims, wordplay that turns to swordplay and aggressive acts of comic revenge. Through a detailed study which considers tragedies and histories as well as comedies, Maslen contends that Shakespeare's use of the comic mode is always calculatedly unsettling, and that this is part of what makes it pleasurable.