Looking for Sex in Shakespeare - Softcover

Wells, Stanley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521540399 ISBN 13: 9780521540391

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

One of the best-known and most versatile of Shakespearian scholars considers the extent to which sexual meaning in Shakespeare's writing relies on interpretation by actors, directors and critics. Tracing interpretations of Shakespearian "bawdy" and "innuendo" from the eighteenth-century to the present, Stanley Wells pays special attention to interpretations of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Sonnets and homosexual relationships in the plays.

About this title

Book Description:

Stanley Wells is one of the best-known and most versatile of Shakespeare scholars. His new book considers how far sexual meaning in Shakespeare's writing is a matter of interpretation by actors, directors and critics. Tracing interpretations of Shakespearian bawdy and innuendo from the eighteenth-century to the present, Wells pays special attention to interpretations of A Midsummer Night's Dream, to the Sonnets and to homosexual relationships in the plays. His lively, provocative, and open-minded new book will appeal to a broad readership of students, theatregoers and Shakespeare lovers.

About the Author:

Stanley Wells has devoted most of his life to teaching, editing, and writing about Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He was Director of the Shakespeare Institute from 1987 to 1997. He is General Editor of the Oxford editions of Shakespeare, edited King Lear for the multi-volume Oxford Shakespeare, and has been associated with the New Penguin edition, for which he edited several plays, since its inception. His publications include Shakespeare: A Dramatic Life, Shakespeare: For All Time (2002) and (with Paul Edmondson) Shakespeare's Sonnets (forthcoming in 2004). He is editor of Shakespeare on the Stage: An Anthology of Criticism, with E. A Davies of Shakespeare and the Moving Image, with Michael Dobson of The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, with Margreta da Grazia of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare, with Sarah Stanton of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on the Stage, and with Lena Orlin of Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0521540399
• ISBN 13: 9780521540391
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124