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Shakespeare, Sex and the Print Revolution

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Shakespeare, Sex and the Print Revolution - Williams, Gordon
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This book investigates how the sexual element in Shakespeare's works is 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-accessible classical canon he creates a reconstituted idea of the sexual temptress; and out of the Counter-Reformation propaganda he fashions his own complex thinking about the prostitute. Shakespeare's theatrical scripts, meeting ...

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Shakespeare, Sex and the Print Revolution 2002, Athlone Press, London, England

ISBN-13: 9780485114959

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Shakespeare, Sex and the Print Revolution 2000, Athlone Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780485121216

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