Presentism, Gender, and Sexuality in Shakespeare

This edited collection of essays by an international group of prominent Shakespeare scholars explores the implications of presentism, the new kid on the block, theoretically speaking, for issues of sexual orientation and gender in Shakespeares texts. Grouped under five rubrics - Theoretical and Political Frameworks, Making War/Making Histories, A kiss is just a kiss/Performativities, Uncivil Unions, and Temporalities - the collection includes essays by Professor Bruce Smith, Professor Phyllis Rackin, and Professor Kathleen McLuskie. The collection offers crucial insights into our present professional, theoretical, theatrical, cinematic, political, and social moment, in addition to readings of particular Shakespeare texts. It places feminist and queer theory in dialogue with presentist, historicist, and materialist theory, as well as with each other. This edited collection of essays by an international group of prominent Shakespeare scholars explores the implications of presentism, the new kid on the block, theoretically speaking, for issues of sexual orientation and gender in Shakespeares texts. Grouped under five rubrics - Theoretical and Political Frameworks, Making War/Making Histories, A kiss is just a kiss/Performativities, Uncivil Unions, and Temporalities - the collection includes essays by Professor Bruce Smith, Professor Phyllis Rackin, and Professor Kathleen McLuskie. The collection offers crucial insights into our present professional, theoretical, theatrical, cinematic, political, and social moment, in addition to readings of particular Shakespeare texts. It places... Read More

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