Sex with Shakespeare : here's much to do with pain, but more with love / Jillian Keenan.
2016
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Title
Sex with Shakespeare : here's much to do with pain, but more with love / Jillian Keenan.
Edition
First edition.
Published
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Description
xii, 334 pages ; 22 cm
Associated name
Keenan, Jillian, author.
William Morrow and Company, publisher.
William Morrow and Company, publisher.
Summary
"When it came to understanding love, a teenage Jillian Keenan had nothing to guide her--until a production of The Tempest sent Shakespeare's language flowing through her blood for the first time. In Sex with Shakespeare, she tells the story of how the Bard's plays helped her embrace her unusual sexual identity and find a love story of her own."-- Provided by publisher.
"A production of The Tempest sent Shakespeare's language flowing through Keenan's blood for the first time, helping her embrace her unusual sexual identity and find a love story of her own. With fourteen of his plays as a springboard she explores the many facets of love and sexuality. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Keenan unmasks Helena as a sexual masochist. The Taming of the Shrew goes inside the secret world of bondage, domination, and sadomasochism, while King Lear exposes the ill-fated king as a possible sexual predator. Words are love-- and Shakespeare's expose wildly important conversations about sexuality, consent, and the secrets that simmer beneath our surfaces"--Book jacket.
"A production of The Tempest sent Shakespeare's language flowing through Keenan's blood for the first time, helping her embrace her unusual sexual identity and find a love story of her own. With fourteen of his plays as a springboard she explores the many facets of love and sexuality. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Keenan unmasks Helena as a sexual masochist. The Taming of the Shrew goes inside the secret world of bondage, domination, and sadomasochism, while King Lear exposes the ill-fated king as a possible sexual predator. Words are love-- and Shakespeare's expose wildly important conversations about sexuality, consent, and the secrets that simmer beneath our surfaces"--Book jacket.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-322) and index.
Contents
A midsummer night's dream : stand and unfold
The tempest: were I human
The winter's tale: an aspect more favorable
Romeo and Juliet: these violent delights
The taming of the shrew: rough with love
Hamlet: nothing, my Lord
Twelfth night: what should I do
Love's labor's lost: wonder of the world
Antony and Cleopatra: here is my space
Macbeth: double, double
King Lear: speak
Othello: beast with two backs
Cymbeline: what we may be
As you like it: what you will.
The tempest: were I human
The winter's tale: an aspect more favorable
Romeo and Juliet: these violent delights
The taming of the shrew: rough with love
Hamlet: nothing, my Lord
Twelfth night: what should I do
Love's labor's lost: wonder of the world
Antony and Cleopatra: here is my space
Macbeth: double, double
King Lear: speak
Othello: beast with two backs
Cymbeline: what we may be
As you like it: what you will.
Genre/form
Autobiographies (literary works)
Place of creation/publication
United States -- New York (State) -- New York.
Item Details
Call number
Sh.Misc. 2289
Folger-specific note
Publisher's illustrated dust jacket over paper boards.
Folger accession
269565