![]() '… stimulating and full of good sense it contrives to be both fair-minded, and a bracing corrective to some current follies.'Sunday Telegraph 'The leading scholar Stanley Wells has collected recent lectures on Bardic bawdy at the Globe into this handy packet of three essays.'The Independent '… this book offers clear, good-humoured answers …'Sunday Times Stanley Wells's lively, provocative, and open-minded book will appeal to a broad readership of students, theatregoers and Shakespeare lovers. Finally, he looks at how male-to-male relationships in the plays have been interpreted as sexual in both criticism and performance. He considers the Sonnets, some of which are addressed to a man, and asks whether they imply same-sex desire in the author, or are quasi-dramatic projections of the writer's imagination. Tracing interpretations of Shakespearean bawdy and innuendo from eighteenth-century editors to recent scholars and critics, Wells pays special attention to recent sexually orientated studies of A Midsummer Night's Dream, once regarded as the most innocent of its author's plays. ![]() ![]() This book, written with characteristic verve and accessibility, considers how far sexual meaning in Shakespeare's writing is a matter of interpretation by actors, directors and critics. Stanley Wells is one of the best-known and most versatile of Shakespeare scholars. ![]() Description Product filter button Description
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