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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Race
Valerie Traub
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Description for The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Race
Hardback. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 40 of the most important scholars writing on the subject today. They explore representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion, and consider Shakespeare's life, contemporary editing practices, and the performance of his plays. Editor(s): Traub, Valerie. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 816 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 184 x 254 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1514.
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 40 of the most important scholars and intellectuals writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on the methods of historicism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and posthumanism, a team of international experts discuss Shakespeare's life, contemporary editing practices, and performance of his plays on stage, on screen, and in the classroom. This theoretically sophisticated yet elegantly written Handbook includes an editor's ... Read more
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 40 of the most important scholars and intellectuals writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on the methods of historicism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and posthumanism, a team of international experts discuss Shakespeare's life, contemporary editing practices, and performance of his plays on stage, on screen, and in the classroom. This theoretically sophisticated yet elegantly written Handbook includes an editor's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Oxford Handbooks
Condition
New
Weight
1513g
Number of Pages
816
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199663408
SKU
V9780199663408
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About Valerie Traub
Valerie Traub is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan and an award winning author and teacher. She is the author of The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (CUP, 2002), Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (Routledge, 1992; rpt 2014), and most recently Thinking Sex ... Read more
Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Race
the volume's forty-three contributors can trace a feminism whose theoretical and historical concerns intersect with other identity-based critical approaches such as queer theory, critical race theory, disability studies, animal studies, and postcolonial studies, as well as historical phenomenology and the new materialism. As this suggests, the volume makes a particularly urgent and timely contribution to our field.
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