Shakespearean CriticismPresents literary criticism on the plays and poetry of Shakespeare. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, newspapers, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Includes commentary by Shakespeare's contemporaries as well as a full range of views from later centuries, with an emphasis on contemporary analysis. Includes aesthetic criticism, textual criticism, and criticism of Shakespeare in performance. |
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Page 126
... male homo- eroticism , provoke the broader question of the relation of male homoeroticism to feminist politics . Contrary to the beliefs of those feminists who conflate male homosociality with homoeroticism , male homoeroticism has no ...
... male homo- eroticism , provoke the broader question of the relation of male homoeroticism to feminist politics . Contrary to the beliefs of those feminists who conflate male homosociality with homoeroticism , male homoeroticism has no ...
Page 131
... male stage companies and plays about gender switching reflects a social and cultural fascination with the subject who symbolized the bodily cite of this gender ambiguity : the hermaphrodite strictly speaking , a person who possesses both ...
... male stage companies and plays about gender switching reflects a social and cultural fascination with the subject who symbolized the bodily cite of this gender ambiguity : the hermaphrodite strictly speaking , a person who possesses both ...
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... male - male and male - female sexual relations . Like Bray , she sees that male - male sexual relations need not be read as outside the normative systems that promote male interests at the expense of women ( the homosocial order can be ...
... male - male and male - female sexual relations . Like Bray , she sees that male - male sexual relations need not be read as outside the normative systems that promote male interests at the expense of women ( the homosocial order can be ...
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