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By Valerie Traub

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ISBN-13: 9781138804395

ISBN-10: 1138804436

ISBN-13: 9781138804432

In either feminist concept and Shakespearean feedback, questions of sexuality have regularly been conflated with questions of gender. First released in 1992, this publication info the intersections and contradictions among sexuality and gender within the early smooth interval. Valerie Traub argues that wish and anxiousness jointly represent the erotic in Shakespearean drama – circulating during the dramatic texts, traversing ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ websites, eliciting and expressing heterosexual and homoerotic fantasies, embodiments, and fears. this is often the 1st ebook to give a non-normalizing account of the subconscious and the institutional prerogatives that include the erotics of Shakespearean drama. applying feminist, psychoanalytic, and new old tools, and utilizing every one to interrogate the opposite, the e-book synthesises the psychic and the social, the person and the institutional.

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