Shakespeare, Sex and the Print Revolution

by Gordon Williams and Gordon Williams

This book investigates how the sexual element in Shakespeare's works in complicated and compromised by the impact of print. Whether the issue is one of censorship and evasion or sexual redefinition, the fact that Shakespeare wrote in the first century of popular print is crucial. Out of the newly-accesible classical canon he creates a reconstituted idea pf the sexual temptress; and out of Counter-Reformation propaganda he fashions his own complex...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B008XZW3O0
• ISBN13: 9780485121216
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Athlone Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"