Sexual Shakespeare: Forgery, Authorship, PortraitureShakespeare's sexuality has always been an ambiguous concept, despite the pleasant fictions of Shakespeare in Love. Now Michael Keevak examines such sources as anecdotes, imitations, forgeries, spurious works and portraits to show that this ambiguity has a long and twisted history. |
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 13 |
Queer Sonnets and the Forgeries | 23 |
CHAPTER 2 | 41 |
CHAPTER 3 | 67 |
Sexuality and Shakespeares Portraits | 87 |
EPILOGUE | 115 |
Notes | 125 |
| 159 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Sexual Shakespeare: Forgery, Authorship, Portraiture |
| Author | Michael Keevak |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Wayne State University Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0814329756, 9780814329757 |
| Length | 175 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Lesbian Studies |
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