Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature before Heterosexuality

REBECCA ANN BACH is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.

• The Homosocial King Lear: Sex, Men, and Women Before the Valorization of Lust and Greed Restoration Shakespeare 1: Adultery and the Birth of Heterosexuality Restoration Shakespeare 2: Friends and Libertines Domestic Tragedy and Emerging Heterosexuality Othello in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and the Colonial Origins of Heterosexuality

"Overall this text is lively and thought-provoking, and is a welcome contribution to the growing body of work on sexual representation and its history." - Comparative Drama"This provocative and interesting book will draw readers' attention to a wide range of Restoration and eighteenth-century texts with which many will be unfamiliar. The book successfully estranges the Renaissance and helps us to see heterosexual attachments as distrusted, branded as sinful, pursued as criminal. Bach also shows us, in detail, the process by which the Restoration and eighteenth century rewrote the Renaissance. This is a rich, thought-provoking, valuable book." - Frances E. Dolan, University of California, Davis