Shakespeare and Renaissance literature before heterosexuality / Rebecca Ann Bach.

Contents Introduction: Before heterosexuality -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-235) and index.
LCCN 2006051371
ISBN1403976546 (alk. paper)
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