Shakespeare and Renaissance literature before heterosexuality /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bach, Rebecca Ann
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism. Heterosexuality in literature. English drama > 17th century > History and criticism. Heterosexuality > England > History. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation. Sex in literature. Adultery in literature. Lust in literature.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Before heterosexuality
The homosocial King Lear: sex, men, and women before the valorization of lust and greed
Restoration Shakespeare 1: adultery and the birth of heterosexuality
Restoration Shakespeare 2: friends and libertines
"Domestic tragedy" and emerging heterosexuality
Othello in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the colonial origins of heterosexuality.