In this book, Stone effects a return to gender, after many years of neglect by Twenty-First-Century critics, via a methodology of close reading that foregrounds moments of sexual decentering and disequilibrium within the text and in the interstices...
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In this book, Stone effects a return to gender, after many years of neglect by Twenty-First-Century critics, via a methodology of close reading that foregrounds moments of sexual decentering and disequilibrium within the text and in the interstices of the dialogue between Shakespeare and his critics. Issues addressed range from the cross dressing of Viola and Imogen to the cross gartering of Malvolio, the sound of ""un"" and the uncanny lyric narcissism of Richard II, Hamlet's misogyny, androgyny, and the poison of marital/political ""union,"" Othello's fears of impotence, rumors of Antony's e
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Transvestic Glove-Text of Twelfth Night; 2 The Sound of "Un" in Richard II; 3 Androgynous "Union" and the Woman in Hamlet; 4 Impotence and the Feminine in Othello; 5 Martial Cleopatra and the Remasculation of Antony; 6 The Woman Within in Cymbeline; Epilogue: The Tain of the Mirror; Notes; Bibliography; Index;