Shakespeare and Queer Representation

Stephen Guy-Bray

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781138389601
• eBook ISBN: 9780429753091
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

In this engaging and accessible guidebook, Stephen Guy-Bray uses queer theory to argue that in many of Shakespeare's works representation itself becomes queer.

Shakespeare often uses representation, not just as a lens through which to tell a story, but as a textual tool in itself. Shakespeare and Queer Representation includes a thorough introduction that discusses how we can define queer representation, with each chapter developing these theories to examine works that span the entire career of Shakespeare, including his sonnets, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, King John, Macbeth, and Cymbeline. The book highlights the extent to which Shakespeare's works can be seen to anticipate, and even to extend, many of the insights of the latest developments in queer theory.

This thought-provoking and evocative book is an essential guide for students studying Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, gender studies, and queer literary theory.

Index

aboutness 175–176

Aeneid 118–119

aesthetics 176–178

Ahmed, Sara 7, 127

“Allegory” 4–7

Amin, Kadji 3

Ars Poetica 123–124

ASAP/Journal 4

Barthes, Roland 11–12, 17, 18

Belsey, Catherine 119, 149, 171

Berry, Amanda 23, 28

Billing, Valerie 154, 155

Brooke, Nicholas 70

camp 9–10, 21n16, 137, 138

Capildeo, Vahni 141

Chapman, Alison A. 109

Clarke, Danielle 105

Creeley, Robert 158

Cymbeline 16–17, 23–45; clothes and jewellery, representation through 29–31, 32, 38; dirge 72, 75; discrepancy between two modes of dramatic representation 28, 36–37; embodiment and representation 29–32, 38–40, 41; families in 27; final scene 23–24, 41, 42, 43; Giacomo’s visit to Innogen’s chamber 32–36; heteronormativity and queerness in 24, 40, 43; homoeroticism 24; homosociality 24; identification of lost sons 39–40; identity, issue of 26–32; Innogen’s misrecognition of Cloten’s corpse 31–32; Jupiter’s text 41–42; marriage of Innogen and Posthumus 24–25, 27–29; masque 41, 42–43; narrative excess 23–24, 42, 43; Posthumus’ soliloquy before battle 38–39; queer representation 36, 37–38, 40–42; queer time 28; queerness of 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 33, 43; representat...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• One: Cymbeline
• Two: King John
• Three: Macbeth
• Four: The Rape of Lucrece
• Five: The sonnets
• Six: Venus and Adonis
• Coda
• Bibliography
• Index