Crossing Gender in Shakespeare

Crossing Gender in Shakespeare

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Stone James W.
Taylor & Francis Ltd
EAN: 9780415896511
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In this book, Stone effects a return to gender, after many years of neglect by Twenty-First-Century critics, via a methodology of close reading that foregrounds moments of sexual decentering and disequilibrium within the text and in the interstices of the dialogue between Shakespeare and his critics. Issues addressed range from the cross dressing of Viola and Imogen to the cross gartering of Malvolio, the sound of "un" and the uncanny lyric narcissism of Richard II, Hamlet’s misogyny, androgyny, and the poison of marital/political "union," Othello’s fears of impotence, rumors of Antony’s emasculation versus the militant yet nurturing triumphalism of Cleopatra’s suicide, and Posthumus’s hysterical reaction to the "woman’s part" in himself and his compensatory fantasies of parthenogenesis. Stone unpacks ideologically powerful but unsustainable male claims to self-identity and sameness, set over against man’s type-gendering of women as the origin of divisive sexual difference, discord, and the dissolution of marriage. Men who blame women for the difference that divides and weakens their sense of unity and sameness to oneself are unconscious that the uncanny feminine is not outside the masculine, its reassuring canny opposite; it is inside the masculine, its uncanny difference from itself.

EAN 9780415896511
ISBN 0415896517
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication date May 16, 2011
Pages 204
Language English
Dimensions 229 x 152
Country United Kingdom
Authors Stone James W.
Illustrations 1 Halftones, black and white
Series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare