Shakespeare on Consent

Amanda Bailey

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English

Routledge
10 March 2023

Shakespeare plays; Literary theory; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Feminism & feminist theory

Series: Spotlight on Shakespeare

"Choice is the defining issue of the twenty-first century. As the #MeToo movement extends its legal, social, and political reach around the world, the topic of consent has come under particular scrutiny. Shakespeare on Consent examines crises of consent on the early modern stage and argues that these dramatizations provide a framework for understanding the intersections of coercion, complicity, resistance, and agency.

Beginning with the premise that consent serves as a lever of entitlement, Amanda Bailey introduces a Shakespeare well aware that liberal selfhood has never been universally available. Bailey brings Shakespeare’s work into conversation with the Penn State Sandusky scandal, the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair, the rise of ""somnophilia,"" Jordan Peele’s documentary on Lorena Bobbitt, Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Harvey Weinstein’s Shakespeare in Love, amongst others. Bailey considers who is denied access to the apparatus of consent, under what circumstances, and how consent is vitiated by race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and gender.

Shakespeare on Consent is a wake-up call for all implicated in the injurious outcomes of consent and will inspire those wanting to mobilize choice in the service of social and political transformation."

By: Amanda Bailey
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9780367184520
ISBN 10: 0367184524
Series: Spotlight on Shakespeare
Pages: 198
Publication Date: 10 March 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Amanda Bailey is Professor and Chair of English at the University of Maryland, USA. Her publications include Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts: Politics, Ecologies, and Form (co-edited with Mario DiGangi, 2017), Of Bondage: Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England (2013), Masculinity and the Metropolis of Vice, 1550–1650 (co-edited with Roze Hentschell, 2010) and Flaunting: Style and the Subversive Male Body in Renaissance England (2007; 2019).