Shakespeare, Sex, and Love
by Stanley Wells
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How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Pre-eminent Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and anecdotal sources to present an illuminating account of sexual behaviour in Shakespeare's time, particularly in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. He demonstrates what we know or can deduce of the sex lives of Shakespeare and members of his family. He also provides a fascinating account of depictions ofsexuality in show more the poetry of the period and suggests that at the time Shakespeare was writing most of his non-dramatic show lessTags
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, Nonfiction
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- 822.33 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English drama 1558-1625 Elizabethan period William Shakespeare
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- PR3069 .S45 .W46 — Language and Literature English English Literature English renaissance (1500-1640)
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