Shakespeare, Sex, and Love Wells Stanley Honorary President The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Praised as eloquent, humane, and balanced (Times Literary Supplement) and deeply versed in the period, urbane and unflappable in tone, and refreshingly free of ideological agendas (Financial Times),…
Specifikacia Shakespeare, Sex, and Love Wells Stanley Honorary President The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Praised as eloquent, humane, and balanced (Times Literary Supplement) and deeply versed in the period, urbane and unflappable in tone, and refreshingly free of ideological agendas (Financial Times), here is a lively look at Shakespeare's treatment of sexuality in his plays and poems, written by the one of the pre-eminent authorities on the Bard and his work. Renowned Shakespeare critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and anecdotal sources to present an illuminating account of sexual behavior--and its consequences--in Shakespeare's time, particularly in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. Wells thoroughly explores this milieu, demonstrating what we know or can deduce about the sexual conventions, sexual mores, and actual sexual behaviors of the day. Wells also explores the ways in which Shakespeare treats sexuality in his plays and how he relates sexuality to love. He